Lipid-layer crystallization and preliminary three-dimensional structural analysis of AcrA, the periplasmic component of a bacterial multidrug efflux pump

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-88

  Avila Sakar, Agustin J ^a   Misaghi, Shahram ^a,e   Wilson Kubalek, Elizabeth M ^b   Downing, Kenneth H ^a   Zgurskaya, Helen ^d,f   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^d   Nogales, Eva ^a,c,d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ACRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIPID BILAYER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0035782880     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2001.4418     Document Type: Article

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