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Conserved small protein associates with the multidrug efflux pump AcrB and differentially affects antibiotic resistance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Oct 2012
Hobbs Errett C, Yin Xuefeng, Paul Brian J, Astarita Jillian L, Storz Gisela
Abstract excerpt
The AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump confers resistance to a wide variety of antibiotics and other compounds in Escherichia coli. Here we show that AcrZ (formerly named YbhT), a 49-amino-acid inner membrane protein, associates with the AcrAB-TolC complex. Co-purification of AcrZ with AcrB, in the...
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