In - vitro cell culture assays were used to analyze the effect of MIA - 602
on efflux pump function.
For this study, the researchers focused
on efflux pumps inside the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause serious illnesses such as pneumonia and sepsis.
Not exact matches
The UTSW experiment focused
on Escherichia coli (E. coli) and bacterial pathogens with genetically similar
efflux pump complexes.
The Solution: Working with pathogenic bacteria would be far too dangerous in a school setting, so Delgado focused
on disabling an
efflux pump in the common bacterium E. coli.
Heterogeneity in a bacterial population that arises through a mechanism of biased partitioning of drug
efflux pumps, as we identified in our study, could be a stepping - stone
on the path of bacterial populations towards antibiotic resistance.»
The team focused
on one
efflux pump protein, known as AcrA, which connects two other proteins in a tunnel shape through the bacterial cell envelope.
They plan to leverage a recently awarded Innovative and Novel Computational Impact
on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) allocation from DOE to perform larger simulations
on the Titan supercomputer to gain deeper understanding of how bacterial
efflux pumps function, identify more potent
efflux pump inhibitors and optimize the best antibiotic - plus - inhibitor combinations to make them suitable for clinical trials.
: This study evaluated the effects of an antagonistic analog of growth hormone - releasing hormone, MIA - 602,
on tumor growth, response to doxorubicin, expression of drug resistance genes, and
efflux pump function in human triple negative breast cancers.
Introduction: This study evaluated the effects of an antagonistic analog of growth hormone - releasing hormone, MIA - 602,
on tumor growth, response to doxorubicin, expression of drug resistance genes, and
efflux pump function in human triple negative breast cancers.
We examined the effects of treatment
on tumor growth, drug resistance, GHRH - R levels, expression of MDR1 and Nanog, and
efflux pump activity.
Based
on unpublished lab experiments Biocidin breaks down biofilms and decreases antibiotic resistance by blocking
efflux pumps that remove antibiotics from germs.