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HipBA-promoter structures reveal the basis of heritable multidrug tolerance.
Nature - 6 Aug 2015
Schumacher Maria A, Balani Pooja, Min Jungki, Chinnam Naga Babu, Hansen Sonja, Vulić Marin, Lewis Kim, Brennan Richard G
Abstract excerpt
Multidrug tolerance is largely responsible for chronic infections and caused by a small population of dormant cells called persisters. Selection for survival in the presence of antibiotics produced the first genetic link to multidrug tolerance: a mutant in the Escherichia coli hipA locus. HipA encodes a serine-protein kinase, the multidrug tolerance activity of which is neutralized by binding to the...
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