Structure, assembly, and function of tripartite efflux and type 1 secretion systems in gram-negative bacteria

I Alav, J Kobylka, MS Kuth, KM Pos, M Picard… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tripartite efflux pumps and the related type 1 secretion systems (T1SSs) in Gram-negative
organisms are diverse in function, energization, and structural organization. They form …

The challenge of efflux-mediated antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

XZ Li, P Plésiat, H Nikaido - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria is a growing threat to
antibiotic therapy. The chromosomally encoded drug efflux mechanisms that are ubiquitous …

Multidrug resistance in bacteria

H Nikaido - Annual review of biochemistry, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Large amounts of antibiotics used for human therapy, as well as for farm animals and even
for fish in aquaculture, resulted in the selection of pathogenic bacteria resistant to multiple …

Update on the discovery of efflux pump inhibitors against critical priority Gram-negative bacteria

N Compagne, A Vieira Da Cruz, RT Müller… - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a major problem in public health leading to an
estimated 4.95 million deaths in 2019. The selective pressure caused by the massive and …

Efflux-mediated drug resistance in bacteria: an update

XZ Li, H Nikaido - Drugs, 2009 - Springer
Drug efflux pumps play a key role in drug resistance and also serve other functions in
bacteria. There has been a growing list of multidrug and drug-specific efflux pumps …

RND-type drug efflux pumps from Gram-negative bacteria: molecular mechanism and inhibition

H Venter, R Mowla, T Ohene-Agyei, S Ma - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Drug efflux protein complexes confer multidrug resistance on bacteria by transporting a wide
spectrum of structurally diverse antibiotics. Moreover, organisms can only acquire resistance …

Recent advances toward a molecular mechanism of efflux pump inhibition

TJ Opperman, ST Nguyen - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Multidrug resistance (MDR) in Gram-negative pathogens, such as the Enterobacteriaceae
and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, poses a significant threat to our ability to effectively treat …

Coordination chemistry of bacterial metal transport and sensing

Z Ma, FE Jacobsen, DP Giedroc - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
The transition or d-block metal ions manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc and to a
more specialized degree molybdenum, tungsten, and vanadium have been shown to be …

Mechanisms of RND multidrug efflux pumps

H Nikaido, Y Takatsuka - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2009 - Elsevier
RND (Resistance-Nodulation-Division) family transporters are widespread especially
among Gram-negative bacteria, and catalyze the active efflux of many antibiotics and …

AcrB: a mean, keen, drug efflux machine

J Kobylka, MS Kuth, RT Müller… - Annals of the New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gram‐negative bacteria are intrinsically resistant against cytotoxic substances by means of
their outer membrane and a network of multidrug efflux systems, acting in synergy. Efflux …