Genetic evidence for functional interactions between TolC and AcrA proteins of a major antibiotic efflux pump of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 620-631

  Gerken, Henri ^a   Misra, Rajeev ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLICIN E1; ERYTHROMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PROTEIN ACRA; PROTEIN ACRB; PROTEIN MEXA; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACRA GENE; ACRAB GENE; ACRR GENE; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETA SHEET; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR GENE; WILD TYPE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 7644244749     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04301.x     Document Type: Article

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