The Acinetobacter baumannii disinfectant resistance protein, AmvA, is a spermidine and spermine efflux pump

Francesca Short et al. identify natural polyamines as substrates for a drug efflux pump in the clinically-relevant pathogen, Acinetobacter baumannii. Their results suggest that efflux pumps now known to be involved in drug resistance may have originated as polyamine transporters.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Francesca L. Short, Qi Liu, Bhumika Shah, Heather E. Clift, Varsha Naidu, Liping Li, Farzana T. Prity, Bridget C. Mabbutt, Karl A. Hassan, Ian T. Paulsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02629-6