Role of Efflux Pumps on Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

AB Lorusso, JA Carrara, CDN Barroso, FF Tuon… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is an old and silent pandemic. Resistant organisms emerge in
parallel with new antibiotics, leading to a major global public health crisis over time …

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 …

Physiological functions of bacterial “multidrug” efflux pumps

PJF Henderson, C Maher, LDH Elbourne… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacterial multidrug efflux pumps have come to prominence in human and veterinary
pathogenesis because they help bacteria protect themselves against the antimicrobials …

Role of RND efflux pumps in drug resistance of cystic fibrosis pathogens

VC Scoffone, G Trespidi, G Barbieri, S Irudal, E Perrin… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drug resistance represents a great concern among people with cystic fibrosis (CF), due to
the recurrent and prolonged antibiotic therapy they should often undergo. Among Multi Drug …

The Art of War with Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Targeting Mex Efflux Pumps Directly to Strategically Enhance Antipseudomonal Drug Efficacy

A Avakh, GD Grant, MJ Cheesman, T Kalkundri, S Hall - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) poses a grave clinical challenge due to its
multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype, leading to severe and life-threatening infections …

The highly diverse Antarctic Peninsula soil microbiota as a source of novel resistance genes

AE Marcoleta, P Arros, MA Varas, J Costa… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rise of multiresistant bacterial pathogens is currently one of the most critical threats to
global health, encouraging a better understanding of the evolution and spread of …

Mutations in rv0678 Confer Low-Level Resistance to Benzothiazinone DprE1 Inhibitors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

NC Poulton, ZA Azadian, MA DeJesus… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from any bacterial infection, causing 1.5
million deaths worldwide each year. Due to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of …

The Impact of an Efflux Pump Inhibitor on the Activity of Free and Liposomal Antibiotics against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

DL Gbian, A Omri - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The eradication of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis patients has become
continuously difficult due to its increased resistance to treatments. This study assessed the …

Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance

LG Kavanaugh, D Dey, WM Shafer… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
The discovery of bacterial efflux pumps significantly advanced our understanding of how
bacteria can resist cytotoxic compounds that they encounter. Within the structurally and …

Molecular determinants for OMF selectivity in tripartite RND multidrug efflux systems

E Boyer, J Dessolin, M Lustig, M Decossas, G Phan… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tripartite multidrug RND efflux systems made of an inner membrane transporter, an outer
membrane factor (OMF) and a periplasmic adaptor protein (PAP) form a canal to expel drugs …