Campus Units

Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

2014

Journal or Book Title

PLoS One

Volume

9

Issue

6

First Page

1

Last Page

8

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0097903

Abstract

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen and the causative agent of the sexually-transmitted disease gonorrhea. The control of this disease has been compromised by the increasing proportion of infections due to antibiotic-resistant strains, which are growing at an alarming rate. The MtrCDE tripartite multidrug efflux pump, belonging to the hydrophobic and amphiphilic efflux resistance-nodulation-cell division (HAE-RND) family, spans both the inner and outer membranes of N. gonorrhoeae and confers resistance to a variety of antibiotics and toxic compounds. We here report the crystal structure of the inner membrane MtrD multidrug efflux pump, which reveals a novel structural feature that is not found in other RND efflux pumps.

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This article is from PLoS One 9 (2014): 1, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097903. Posted with permission.

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© 2014 Bolla et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Bolla et al.

Language

en

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