Title: | Polymyxin B nonapeptide inhibits mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
Journal Title: | Antimicrob Agents Chemother |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0066-4804 (Print) 1098-6596 (Electronic) 0066-4804 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Polymyxin B nonapeptide enhanced susceptibility of yeast cells to various hydrophobic antibiotics and to mating pheromones. At much lower concentrations, the nonapeptide severely inhibited mating. The inhibition was caused by interference with sexual agglutination" |
Keywords: | Agglutination/drug effects Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology Diploidy Haploidy Mating Factor Peptides/pharmacology Polymyxin B/analogs & derivatives/metabolism/*pharmacology Polymyxins/*pharmacology Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*drug effects/genetics/physiol; |
Notes: | "MedlineBoguslawski, G eng 1986/02/01 Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1986 Feb; 29(2):330-2. doi: 10.1128/AAC.29.2.330" |