Efflux pumps seem very energy inefficient. Why do bacteria not simply fail to take up antibiotics into the cytoplasm?
Efflux pumps only reduce the level of an intracellular antibiotic, they do not eliminate the antibiotic completely. Why does this make the bacteria resistant to the antibiotic?
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