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The process by which selection pressure from one agent — typically a heavy metal — simultaneously selects for resistance to a structurally unrelated agent such as an antibiotic, because the resistance determinants are genetically linked on the same mobile genetic elemen…
Membrane-spanning protein complexes that actively export substrates from the bacterial cell, using energy from ATP hydrolysis or the proton motive force. In the context of metal-microbiome biology, efflux pumps serve a dual role that has profound clinical consequences: …