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<Structure load='2gif' size='500' frame='true' align='right' caption='Asymmetrical AcrB' scene='Sandbox_Reserved_689/Acrb_asymmetrical_no_ligand/1'/> | <Structure load='2gif' size='500' frame='true' align='right' caption='Asymmetrical AcrB' scene='Sandbox_Reserved_689/Acrb_asymmetrical_no_ligand/1'/> | ||
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Because of the large binding pockets in AcrB, it is able to bind and export a wide variety of antibiotic drugs and other toxins. | Because of the large binding pockets in AcrB, it is able to bind and export a wide variety of antibiotic drugs and other toxins. | ||
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<scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_689/Rifampicin_in_acrb/1'>Bound; entire AcrB trimer shown</scene> | <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_689/Rifampicin_in_acrb/1'>Bound; entire AcrB trimer shown</scene> | ||
Revision as of 14:15, 30 April 2013
This Sandbox is Reserved from 30/01/2013, through 30/12/2013 for use in the course "Biochemistry II" taught by Hannah Tims at the Messiah College. This reservation includes Sandbox Reserved 686 through Sandbox Reserved 700. |
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The E. coli AcrB Efflux Pump
Structure
The AcrB efflux pump is part of a tripartite system used by E. Coli to remove antibiotic and other toxic molecules from the bacterial cell.
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Structural Elements
Substrates
Because of the large binding pockets in AcrB, it is able to bind and export a wide variety of antibiotic drugs and other toxins.
Rifampicin is a high molecular weight drug (~800 g/mol) that has been crystallized in the proximal binding pocket
, interacting residues (all residues within 4 Angstroms) highlighted and shown in ball-and-stick representation.
interacting residues are shown here (Polar in blue, nonpolar in orange).
Energy Transduction
There are (Asp408, Asp407, Lys940, and Arg 971) whose protonation and deprotonation are suggested to play a large role in the conformational change between the L, T, and O states (Eicher, et al. 2009). PDB: 3D9B