efflux

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But it will also rise if the hole at the bottom shrinks—if efflux slows.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024

The N-ethylene linkage structure of the eAmSPCs plays a critical role in how the compounds avoid efflux, suggesting that longer linkages modify how the compound is pumped out of the cell.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2024

To infiltrate E. coli, the phage uses an efflux pump, a protein E. coli normally uses to pump antibiotics out of the cell.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2023

In addition, transport proteins called efflux pumps span this double membrane and actively eliminate chemicals such as antibiotics that pass through porins on the outer membrane.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

They held that the soul of man is merely an efflux of the universal soul, and that it comes into the body from without.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William