In situ structure and assembly of the multidrug efflux pump AcrAB-TolC

oleh: Xiaodong Shi, Muyuan Chen, Zhili Yu, James M. Bell, Hans Wang, Isaac Forrester, Heather Villarreal, Joanita Jakana, Dijun Du, Ben F. Luisi, Steven J. Ludtke, Zhao Wang

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-06-01

Deskripsi

Multidrug efflux pumps actively expel a wide range of toxic substrates from bacteria and play a major role in drug resistance. Here authors show the in situ structure of the efflux pump AcrAB-TolC obtained by electron cryo-tomography and subtomogram averaging.