Three's company: component structures bring a closer view of tripartite drug efflux pumps.
Bacterial multidrug resistance is a serious clinical problem and is commonly conferred by tripartite efflux 'pumps' in the prokaryotic cell envelope. Crystal structures of the three components of a drug efflux pump have now been solved: the outer membrane TolC exit duct in the year 2000, t...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2004
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