Assembly and Channel Opening in a Bacterial Drug Efflux Machine
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Assembly and Channel Opening in a Bacterial Drug Efflux Machine
Drugs and certain proteins are transported across the membranes of Gram-negative bacteria by energy-activated pumps. The outer membrane component of these pumps is a channel that opens from a sealed resting state during the transport process. We describe two crystal structures of the Escherichia coli outer membrane protein TolC in its partially open state. Opening is accompanied by the exposure...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Cell
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1097-2765
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.02.015