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The DrrAB efflux system of Streptomyces peucetius is a multidrug transporter of broad substrate specificity.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 2 May 2014
Li Wen, Sharma Madhu, Kaur Parjit
Abstract excerpt
The soil bacterium Streptomyces peucetius produces two widely used anticancer antibiotics, doxorubicin and daunorubicin. Present within the biosynthesis gene cluster in S. peucetius is the drrAB operon, which codes for a dedicated ABC (ATP binding cassette)-type transporter for the export of these two closely related antibiotics. Because of its dedicated nature, the DrrAB system is believed to belong to the...
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