The outer membranes of Brucella spp. are resistant to bactericidal cationic peptides.
Martínez de Tejada G, Pizarro-Cerdá J, Moreno E, Moriyón I.
Martínez de Tejada G, et al. Among authors: moriyon i.
Infect Immun. 1995 Aug;63(8):3054-61. doi: 10.1128/iai.63.8.3054-3061.1995.
Infect Immun. 1995.
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Since Brucella and H. influenzae OMs are permeable to hydrophobic compounds (G. Martinez de Tejada and I. Moriyon, J. Bacteriol. 175:5273-5275, 1993), the results show that such unusual permeability is not necessarily related to resistance to polycations. ...
Since Brucella and H. influenzae OMs are permeable to hydrophobic compounds (G. Martinez de Tejada and I. Moriyon, J. Bacterio …