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SUBMITTER: Hobbs EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3478662 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hobbs Errett C EC Yin Xuefeng X Paul Brian J BJ Astarita Jillian L JL Storz Gisela G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120924 41
The AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump confers resistance to a wide variety of antibiotics and other compounds in Escherichia coli. Here we show that AcrZ (formerly named YbhT), a 49-amino-acid inner membrane protein, associates with the AcrAB-TolC complex. Co-purification of AcrZ with AcrB, in the absence of both AcrA and TolC, two-hybrid assays and suppressor mutations indicate that this interaction occurs through the inner membrane protein AcrB. The highly conserved acrZ gene is coregulated wit ...[more]