Architecture and roles of periplasmic adaptor proteins in tripartite efflux assemblies

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Symmons, Martyn F ^a   Marshall, Robert L ^b   Bavro, Vassiliy N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Drug efflux pumps; Membrane proteins; Membrane transport; Periplasmic adaptor proteins; RND family pumps; TolC; Type I secretion system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC ADAPTOR PROTEIN; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CROSS REACTION; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TYPE I SECRETION SYSTEM;

EID: 84931259821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00513     Document Type: Review

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