Multidrug efflux pump AcrAB of Salmonella typhimurium excretes only those beta-lactam antibiotics containing lipophilic side chains.

doi:10.1128/JB.180.17.4686-4692.1998

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Multidrug efflux pump AcrAB of Salmonella typhimurium excretes only those beta-lactam antibiotics containing lipophilic side chains.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 1998

Nikaido H, Basina M, Nguyen V, Rosenberg E Y

Abstract excerpt

We found that the previously reported SS-B drug-supersusceptible mutant of Salmonella typhimurium (S. Sukupolvi, M. Vaara, I. M. Helander, P. Viljanen, and P. H. Mäkelä, J. Bacteriol. 159:704-712, 1984) had a mutation in the acrAB operon. Comparison of this mutant with its parent strain and with...

Topics

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacterial Proteins
Cephalosporins
DNA-Binding Proteins
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Mutation
Nafcillin
Phenotype
Salmonella typhimurium
Transduction, Genetic

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