Multidrug resistance (MDR): A widespread phenomenon in pharmacological therapies

A Catalano, D Iacopetta, J Ceramella, D Scumaci… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multidrug resistance is a leading concern in public health. It describes a complex phenotype
whose predominant feature is resistance to a wide range of structurally unrelated cytotoxic …

Structure and mechanism of human ABC transporters

A Alam, KP Locher - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
ABC transporters are essential for cellular physiology. Humans have 48 ABC genes
organized into seven distinct families. Of these genes, 44 (in five distinct families) encode for …

Structure and function of the Arabidopsis ABC transporter ABCB19 in brassinosteroid export

W Ying, Y Wang, H Wei, Y Luo, Q Ma, H Zhu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Brassinosteroids are steroidal phytohormones that regulate plant development and
physiology, including adaptation to environmental stresses. Brassinosteroids are …

Macromolecular crowding, phase separation, and homeostasis in the orchestration of bacterial cellular functions

B Monterroso, W Margolin, AJ Boersma, G Rivas… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Macromolecular crowding affects the activity of proteins and functional macromolecular
complexes in all cells, including bacteria. Crowding, together with physicochemical …

Structure, assembly, and function of tripartite efflux and type 1 secretion systems in gram-negative bacteria

I Alav, J Kobylka, MS Kuth, KM Pos, M Picard… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tripartite efflux pumps and the related type 1 secretion systems (T1SSs) in Gram-negative
organisms are diverse in function, energization, and structural organization. They form …

[HTML][HTML] The role of bacterial ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters in pathogenesis and virulence: Therapeutic and vaccine potential

AA Akhtar, DPJ Turner - Microbial pathogenesis, 2022 - Elsevier
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily is found in all domains of life,
facilitating critical biological processes through the translocation of a wide variety of …

The human ATP‐binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily

M Dean, K Moitra, R Allikmets - Human mutation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ATP‐binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily comprises membrane proteins that
efflux various substrates across extra‐and intracellular membranes. Mutations in ABC genes …

Ins and outs of AlphaFold2 transmembrane protein structure predictions

T Hegedűs, M Geisler, GL Lukács, B Farkas - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2022 - Springer
Transmembrane (TM) proteins are major drug targets, but their structure determination, a
prerequisite for rational drug design, remains challenging. Recently, the DeepMind's …

Physiological functions of bacterial “multidrug” efflux pumps

PJF Henderson, C Maher, LDH Elbourne… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacterial multidrug efflux pumps have come to prominence in human and veterinary
pathogenesis because they help bacteria protect themselves against the antimicrobials …

The bacterial cell wall: from lipid II flip** to polymerization

S Kumar, A Mollo, D Kahne, N Ruiz - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall is an extra-cytoplasmic glycopeptide polymeric structure
that protects bacteria from osmotic lysis and determines cellular shape. Since the cell wall …