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Efflux pumps as potential targets for biofilm inhibition [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyBiofilms account for a great deal of infectious diseases and contribute significantly to antimicrobial resistance. Efflux pumps confer antimicrobial resistance to microorganisms and involve multiple processes of biofilm formation. Efflux pump inhibitors (
Jingyi Ren +3 more
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Effects of efflux pumps on antifungal activity of chitosan against Candida albicans [PDF]
Journal of Oral MicrobiologyBackground Antifungal resistance is a major problem, commonly caused by drug-efflux pump overexpression. To evaluate if chitosan could be effective in drug-resistant Candida infections, we investigated the effects of efflux pumps on antifungal activity ...
Sureeporn Muangsawat +5 more
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Efflux pumps mediate changes to fundamental bacterial physiology via membrane potential [PDF]
mBioEfflux pumps are well known to be an important mechanism for removing noxious substances such as antibiotics from bacteria. Given that many antibiotics function by accumulating inside bacteria, efflux pumps contribute to resistance.
Emily E. Whittle +6 more
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Identification and characterisation of two functional antibiotic MATE efflux pumps in the archaeon Halorubrum amylolyticum [PDF]
npj Antimicrobials and ResistanceMultidrug efflux pumps have been found to play a crucial role in drug resistance in bacteria and eukaryotes. In this study, we investigated the presence of functional multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) efflux pumps, inferred from whole genome ...
Asma A. Fakhoury +7 more
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Susceptibility Tests and Predictions of Transporter Profile in Serratia Species
Microorganisms, 2022 Disinfectants and biosecurity are critically important to control microbial diseases. Resistance to disinfectants compromises sectors such as agriculture and healthcare systems.
Gunther J. Staats +3 more
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PLoS Biology, 2022 Bacteria have membrane-spanning efflux pumps to secrete toxic compounds ranging from heavy metal ions to organic chemicals, including antibiotic drugs.
Christopher J Stubenrauch +3 more
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Role of efflux pumps, their inhibitors, and regulators in colistin resistance
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Colistin is highly promising against multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant bacteria clinically. Bacteria are resistant to colistin mainly through mcr and chromosome-mediated lipopolysaccharide (LPS) synthesis-related locus variation. However,
Yinhuan Ding +9 more
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Phylogenetic analysis reveals an ancient gene duplication as the origin of the MdtABC efflux pump. [PDF]
, 2020 The efflux pumps from the Resistance-Nodulation-Division family, RND, are main contributors to intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. Among this family, the MdtABC pump is unusual by having two inner membrane components.
Górecki, Kamil, McEvoy, Megan M
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mSystems, 2021 Multidrug resistance (MDR) efflux pumps are involved in bacterial intrinsic resistance to multiple antimicrobials. Expression of MDR efflux pumps can be either constitutive or transiently induced by various environmental signals, which are typically ...
Di-Yin Li +7 more
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Ever-Adapting RND Efflux Pumps in Gram-Negative Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens: A Race against Time
Antibiotics, 2021 The rise in multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the greatest threats to human health worldwide. MDR in bacterial pathogens is a major challenge in healthcare, as bacterial infections are becoming untreatable by commercially available antibiotics. One of
Martijn Zwama, Kunihiko Nishino
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