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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2020

BceAB-Type Antibiotic Resistance Transporters Appear To Act by Target Protection of Cell Wall Synthesis.

Carolin M Kobras, Hannah Piepenbreier, Jennifer Emenegger, Andre Sim, Georg Fritz, Susanne Gebhard

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Carolin M KobrasDepartment of Biology & Biochemistry, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4393-5829
Hannah PiepenbreierLOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology and Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Jennifer EmeneggerDepartment Biologie I, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany.
Andre SimLOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology and Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Georg FritzLOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology and Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1503-9165
Susanne GebhardDepartment of Biology & Biochemistry, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom s.gebhard@bath.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4783-6115
Philipps University of Marburg · DEUniversity of Bath · GBLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M029255/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resistance against cell wall-active antimicrobial peptides in bacteria is often mediated by transporters. In low-GC-content Gram-positive bacteria, a common type of such transporters is BceAB-like systems, which frequently provide high-level resistance against peptide antibiotics that target intermediates of the lipid II cycle of cell wall synthesis. How a transporter can offer protection from drugs that are active on the cell surface, however, has presented researchers with a conundrum. Multiple theories have been discussed, ranging from removal of the peptides from the membrane and internalization of the drug for degradation to removal of the cellular target rather than the drug itself. To resolve this much-debated question, we here investigated the mode of action of the transporter BceAB of

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Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCell WallDrug Resistance, BacterialGene Expression Regulation, BacterialBacterial ProteinsABC transportantimicrobial peptideBacillus subtilislipid II cycle

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PMID31871088
PMCPMC7038271
OpenAlexW2995281801

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