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MmpS5/MmpL5 as an efflux pump in Mycobacterium species.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Dec 2017
Briffotaux Julien, Huang Wei, Wang Xinwei, Gicquel Brigitte
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world, amplified by the expansion of antibiotic resistance. Increasing active efflux of the antibiotic is one of the several strategies used by bacteria to resist to antibiotics. After showing the importance of the RND superfamily of efflux pumps in drug resistance, this review focuses on the protein MmpL5, a transmembrane...
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