| Literature DB >> 29177829 |
Martin Picard1, Elena B Tikhonova2, Isabelle Broutin3, Shuo Lu4, Alice Verchère3, Helen I Zgurskaya5.
Abstract
Efflux pumps are the major determinants in bacterial multidrug resistance. In Gram-negative bacteria, efflux transporters are organized as macromolecular tripartite machineries that span the two-membrane cell envelope of the bacterium. Biochemical data on purified proteins are essential to draw a mechanistic picture of this highly dynamical, multicomponent, efflux system. We describe protocols for the reconstitution and the in vitro study of transporters belonging to RND and ABC superfamilies: the AcrAB-TolC and MacAB-TolC efflux systems from Escherichia coli and the MexAB-OprM efflux pump from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Entities:
Keywords: Membrane protein purification; Proteoliposomes; Transport kinetics
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29177829 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7454-2_8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745