Related Experiment Videos
Efflux pumps and drug resistance in gram-negative bacteria
1Dept of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
Trends in Microbiology
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria can only slow down the influx of lipophilic inhibitors, and so these bacteria need active efflux pumps of broad specificity to survive. Pumps such as the Escherichia coli Acr system and its homologs make Gram-negative bacteria resistant to dyes, detergents and antibiotics.