Site-directed mutagenesis reveals putative substrate binding residues in the Escherichia coli RND efflux pump AcrB

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8225-8229

  Bohnert, Jürgen A ^a   Schuster, Sabine ^a   Seeger, Markus A ^b   Fähnrich, Eva ^a   Pos, Klaas M ^b   Kern, Winfried V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN ACRB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BINDING SITES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENYLALANINE; POINT MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57349135305     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00912-08     Document Type: Article

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