Role of an ABC importer in mycobacterial drug resistance.

Chakraborti, Pradip K and Bhatt, K and Banerjee, S K and Misra, P (1999) Role of an ABC importer in mycobacterial drug resistance. Bioscience reports, 19 (4). pp. 293-300. ISSN 0144-8463

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Abstract

Phosphate specific transporter (Pst) in bacteria is involved in phosphate transport. Pst is a multisubunit system which belongs to the ABC family of transporters. The import function of this transporter is known to be operative at media phosphate concentrations below the millimolar range. However, we found amplification of this transporter in a laboratory generated ciprofloxacin resistant Mycobacterium smegmatis colony (CIPr) which was grown in a condition when phosphate scavenging function of this operon was inoperative. Our results therefore argue the role of this ABC importer in conferring high level of fluoroquinolone resistance in CIPr.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer Science
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ABC importer; Pst system; drug resistance; fluroquinolone; mycobacteria.
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology
Depositing User:	Dr. K.P.S.Sengar
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2012 16:49
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2012 07:19
URI:	http://crdd.osdd.net/open/id/eprint/337

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