| Literature DB >> 8636056 |
R Muñoz1, E García, A G De la Campa.
Abstract
Streptococcus pneumoniae is uniquely sensitive to quinine and its derivatives, but only those alkaloids having antimalarial properties, i.e., those in the erythro configuration, also possess antipneumococcal activity. Quinine and related compounds inhibit the pneumococcal H+ -ATPase. Quinine- and optochin-resistant pneumococci showed mutations that change amino acid residues located in one of the two transmembrane alpha-helices of the c subunit of the F0F1, H+ -ATPase.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8636056 PMCID: PMC177963 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.8.2455-2458.1996
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490