Characterization of the Vibrio cholerae vceCAB multiple-drug resistance efflux operon in Escherichia coli.
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SUBMITTER: Woolley RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1196037 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug
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Characterization of the Vibrio cholerae vceCAB multiple-drug resistance efflux operon in Escherichia coli.
Woolley Robin C RC Vediyappan Govindsamy G Anderson Matthew M Lackey Melinda M Ramasubramanian Bhagavathi B Jiangping Bai B Borisova Tatyana T Colmer Jane A JA Hamood Abdul N AN McVay Catherine S CS Fralick Joe A JA
Journal of bacteriology 20050801 15
Herein, we identify vceC as a component of a vceCAB operon, which codes for the Vibrio cholerae VceAB multiple-drug resistance (MDR) efflux pump, and vceR, which codes for a transcriptional autoregulatory protein that negatively regulates the expression of the vceCAB operon and is modulated by some of the substrates of this MDR efflux pump. ...[more]
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