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. 2021 Apr 28;121(9):5479–5596. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00055

Table 2. List of Tripartite Systems That When Deleted or Inactivated Result in Attenuated Virulence in Their Cell/Host Model of Infectiona.

Microorganism Efflux pump family Efflux system Cell/host infection model ref(s)
S. Typhimurium RND AcrAB-TolC Human epithelial cells, murine macrophages, Galleria mellonella, mouse, chicken (101, 158160)
    MdtABC Mouse (101)
    MdsABC Mouse (101)
  ABC MacAB-TolC Mouse (101, 138, 139)
    SiiCDF Cattle and bovine enterocytes (156)
K. pneumoniae RND AcrAB-TolC Mouse (51)
E. coli ABC MacAB-TolC Galleria mellonella and murine mammary glands (161)
  RND MdtB Mouse spleen (161)
    MdtEF Human macrophages (162)
A. baumannii RND AdeABC Galleria mellonella (163)
    AdeIJK Caenorhabditis elegans (164)
E. cloacae RND AcrAB-TolC Mouse (165)
F. tularensis RND AcrAB Mouse (166)
N. gonorrhoeae RND MtrCDE Human neutrophils, mouse (146, 167)
P. aeruginosa RND MexAB-OprM Mouse, canine epithelial cells (168)
    MexGHI-OpmD Rat (83)
S. maltophilia RND SmeYZ Mouse (114)
B. pseudomallei RND BpeAB-OprB Human epithelial cells and macrophages (169)
B. burgdorferi RND BesABC Mouse (32)
C. jejuni RND CmeABC Acanthamoeba polyphaga, Chicken (170)
        (143)
S. flexneri MFS EmrKY Human macrophages (144)
L. pneumophila ABC LssBD-TolC Ameoba and human macrophages (157)
V. cholerae RND VexAB-TolC, VexCD-TolC, VexIJK Mouse (120)
Riemerella anatipestifer RND RaeEF-RopN Duck (99)
E. amylovora RND MdtABC Apple rootstock (147)
    MdtUVW    
    AcrAB   (171)
R. solanacearum RND AcrAB Tomato plant (148)
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ABC, ATP-binding cassette; MFS, major facilitator superfamily; RND, resistance-nodulation-division.