Article
The cobalt, zinc, and cadmium efflux system CzcABC from Alcaligenes eutrophus functions as a cation-proton antiporter in Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 1995
Nies D H
Abstract excerpt
The function of the CzcABC protein complex, which mediates resistance to Co2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+ in Alcaligenes eutrophus by cation efflux, was investigated by using everted membrane vesicles of Escherichia coli and an acridine orange fluorescence quenching assay. Since metal cation uptake could not be measured with inside-out membrane vesicles prepared from A. eutrophus and since available E. coli strains did not...
Topics
- Alcaligenes
- Antiporters
- Biological Transport
- Cadmium
- Cations
- Cell Polarity
- Cobalt
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Escherichia coli
- Membranes
- Mutation
- Protons
