The multidrug resistance efflux complex, EmrAB from Escherichia coli forms a dimer in vitro

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 338-342

  Tanabe, Mikio ^a   Szakonyi, Gerda ^b   Brown, Katherine A ^a   Henderson, Peter J F ^b   Nield, Jon ^c   Byrne, Bernadette ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EmrAB TolC; Membrane transport; Multidrug resistance; Oligomer; Single particle electron microscopy; Tripartite efflux system

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DIMER; EMRA; EMRB; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DIMERIZATION; EFFUSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRIPARTITE EFFLUX SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 60349111859     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.01.081     Document Type: Article

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