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Sequential mechanism of assembly of multidrug efflux pump AcrAB-TolC.
Chemistry & biology - 22 Apr 2011
Tikhonova Elena B, Yamada Yoichi, Zgurskaya Helen I
Abstract excerpt
Multidrug efflux pumps adversely affect both the clinical effectiveness of existing antibiotics and the discovery process to find new ones. In this study, we reconstituted and characterized by surface plasmon resonance the assembly of AcrAB-TolC, the archetypal multidrug efflux pump from Escherichia coli. We report that the periplasmic AcrA and the outer membrane channel TolC assemble high-affinity complexes with...
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