Antimicrobials: Pump it out

Nature Reviews Microbiology 14, 667 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.154 Author: Andrea Du Toit The tripartite efflux pump CmeABC is the most important efflux system in Campylobacter spp. that confers multidrug resistance. Yao, Shen et al. report the identification of a CmeABC variant that exhibits enhanced efflux function. This variant, termed resistance-enhancing CmeABC (RE-CmeABC), was more potent

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Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - October 11, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Andrea Du Toit Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research

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