Multidrug efflux pump MdtBC of Escherichia coli is active only as a B 2C heterotrimer

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1377-1386

  Kim, Hong Suk ^a   Nagore, Daniel ^a,b   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Proteomika SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG EFFLUX PUMP PROTEIN; POLYHISTIDINE TAG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 77749279768     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01448-09     Document Type: Article

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