| Literature DB >> 18838593 |
Sebastien Fraud1, Aaron J Campigotto, Zhilin Chen, Keith Poole.
Abstract
The biocide chlorhexidine (CHX) as well as additional membrane-active agents were shown to induce expression of the mexCD-oprJ multidrug efflux operon, dependent upon the AlgU stress response sigma factor. Hyperexpression of this efflux system in nfxB mutants was also substantially AlgU dependent. CHX resistance correlated with efflux gene expression in various mutants, consistent with MexCD-OprJ being a determinant of CHX resistance.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18838593 PMCID: PMC2592872 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01072-08
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191