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TolC is involved in enterobactin efflux across the outer membrane of Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2005
Bleuel Corinna, Grosse Cornelia, Taudte Nadine, Scherer Judith, Wesenberg Dirk, Krauss Gerd J, Nies Dietrich H, Grass Gregor
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli excretes the catecholate siderophore enterobactin in response to iron deprivation. While the mechanisms underlying enterobactin biosynthesis and ferric enterobactin uptake and utilization are widely understood, nearly nothing is known about how enterobactin is exported from the cell. Mutant and high-performance liquid chromatography analyses demonstrated that the outer membrane channel tunnel...
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