Membrane adaptation limitations in Enterococcus faecalis underlie sensitivity and the inability to develop significant resistance to conjugated oligoelectrolytes

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Chilambi, Gayatri Shankar, Gao, Iris H., Yoon, Bo Kyeong, Park, Soohyun, Kawakami, Lisa M., Ravikumar, Vikashini, Chan-Park, Mary Beeeng, Cho, Nam-Joon, Bazan, Guillermo C., Kline, Kimberly A., Rice, Scott Alan, Hinks, Jamie
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Engineering::Materials; Enterococcus Faecalis; Oligoelectrolytes
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141096

The growing problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria, along with a dearth of new antibiotics, has redirected attention to the search for alternative antimicrobial agents. Conjugated oligoelectrolytes (COEs) are an emerging class of antimicrobial agents which insert into bacterial cell membranes and...