Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages 1663-1673Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2007.09.023
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Bacterial drug resistance is a serious concern for human health. Multidrug efflux pumps export a broad variety of substrates out of the cell and thereby convey resistance to the host. In Escherichia coli, the AcrB:AcrA:TolC efflux complex forms a principal transporter for which structures of the individual component proteins have been determined in isolation. Here, we present the X-ray structure of AcrB in complex with a single transmembrane protein, assigned by mass spectrometry as YajC. A specific rotation of the periplasmic porter domain of AcrB is also revealed, consistent with the hypothesized twist-to-open mechanism for TolC activation. Growth experiments with yajc-deleted E. coli reveal a modest increase in the organism's susceptibility to P-lactam antibiotics, but this effect could not conclusively be attributed to the loss of interactions between YajC and AcrB.
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