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Fe(2+)-tetracycline-mediated cleavage of the Tn10 tetracycline efflux protein TetA reveals a substrate binding site near glutamine 225 in transmembrane helix 7.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2002
McMurry Laura M, Aldema-Ramos Mila L, Levy Stuart B
Abstract excerpt
TetA specified by Tn10 is a class B member of a group of related bacterial transport proteins of 12 transmembrane alpha helices that mediate resistance to the antibiotic tetracycline. A tetracycline-divalent metal cation complex is expelled from the cell in exchange for a entering proton. The site(s) where tetracycline binds to this export pump is not known. We found that, when chelated to tetracycline, Fe(2+)...
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