Substrate specificity of the RND-type multidrug efflux pumps AcrB and AcrD of Escherichia coli is determined predominately by two large periplasmic loops

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 6490-6498

  Elkins, Christopher A ^a   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOPHILE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILE ACID; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DETERGENT; DYE; FUSIDIC ACID; NOVOBIOCIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ACRA; PROTEIN ACRB; PROTEIN ACRD; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PERIPLASM; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036889033     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.23.6490-6499.2002     Document Type: Article

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