Multidrug resistance in cancer or inefficacy of neuroactive agents: Innovative strategies to inhibit or circumvent the active efflux transporters selectively

B Pavan, G Paganetto, D Rossi, A Dalpiaz - Drug Discovery Today, 2014 - Elsevier
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a crucial issue in the treatment of cancer cells that protect
themselves by overexpression of active efflux transporters (AETs). AET expression maintains the …

[HTML][HTML] Structure, mechanism and cooperation of bacterial multidrug transporters

D Du, HW van Veen, S Murakami, KM Pos… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
… serve as energy-transducing components of tripartite assemblies that actively efflux drugs
and other … for the main classes of multi-drug transporters and their higher-order assemblies. …

ABC multidrug transporters: structure, function and role in chemoresistance

FJ Sharom - Pharmacogenomics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… A total of 15 family members can function as drug-efflux pumps, and have been implicated in
… drug transporters are located in the plasma membrane, where they engage in active efflux

Mechanisms of multidrug transporters

H Bolhuis, HW van Veen, B Poolman… - FEMS Microbiology …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
… drug transportersmultidrug resistance, whereas others mediate efflux with a high specificity.
On the basis of similarities in size and secondary structure, the secondary drug transporters

P-glycoprotein as multidrug transporter: a critical review of current multidrug resistant cell lines

D Nielsen, T Skovsgaard - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 1992 - Elsevier
… However, if active efflux is not the mechanism of MDR, what then is the mechanism?
Furthermore, if P-gp does not function as a multidrug transporter, then what is the function of the …

Blood-brain barrier active efflux transporters: ATP-binding cassette gene family

W Löscher, H Potschka - NeuroRx, 2005 - Elsevier
… to the potential role of these efflux transporters in intractable epilepsy. Nevertheless, taken
the enormous experimental and clinical interest in multidrug transporters, it seems very likely …

Multidrug efflux transporter, AcrB—the pumping mechanism

S Murakami - Current opinion in structural biology, 2008 - Elsevier
… for the multidrug resistance of bacteria is the expression of multidrug efflux transporters,
which … AcrB and its homologues are the major multidrug efflux transporters in Gram-negative …

Phylogeny of multidrug transporters

MH Saier Jr, IT Paulsen - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2001 - Elsevier
… eukaryotic-specific family in which cellular multidrug efflux pumps occur. One, the … efflux,
but the MFS, RND, MATE and DMT superfamilies include members that are secondary carriers, …

Multidrug resistance mechanisms: drug efflux across two membranes

HI Zgurskaya, H Nikaido - Molecular microbiology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… pump consists of three components: the inner membrane transporter, the outer … multidrug
transporters from eukaryotic cells and Gram-positive bacteria, the inner membrane transporters

Bacterial multidrug efflux transporters

JA Delmar, CC Su, EW Yu - Annual review of biophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
… Composed of one or more protein components, these multidrug efflux pumps traverse the
cell membrane, binding and actively pumping out a broad range of noxious agents—in some …