The assembled structure of a complete tripartite bacterial multidrug efflux pump

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 7173-7178

  Symmons, Martyn F ^a   Bokma, Evert ^a   Koronakis, Eva ^a   Hughes, Colin ^a   Koronakis, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Docked model; Membrane complex; TolC exit duct

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DRUG BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 66349137043     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900693106     Document Type: Article

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