La pompe à efflux multidrogue de type MFS à trois composants EmrAB-TolC d’Escherichia coli : du clonage à l’analyse structurale
2020
Online
Elektronische Ressource
Currently, due to the misuse of antibiotics, we are facing a major public health problem. The resistance to antibiotics of certain bacterial strains makes the treatment of infections very complex. In this context, the present thesis project concerns the study of a bacterial efflux complex capable of transporting antibiotics from the cytoplasm to the outside of the cell. This complex is composed of an inner-membrane Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS) transporter (EmrB, E. coli multidrug resistance), a channel of the outer membrane TolC (Tolerance to Colicin E1) and a periplasmic adapter (EmrA, E. coli multidrug resistance). Unlike RND-type efflux systems (such as AcrAB-TolC), little is known about the MFS-type EmrAB-TolC system. It is therefore important to study the entire complex on a structural and functional level, to analyse the marked differences between these two types of transport systems. The goal of my thesis project was to study at least one EmrAB-TolC complex from a structural point of view. For my studies the aim was to isolate the complex directly from bacteria overexpressing the three protein partners. In a first step, 15 homologous EmrAB-TolC systems were identified and their corresponding genes amplified from genomic DNA of different Gram-negative bacteria. Among the genes of the 15 systems, the genes coding for the E. coli and V. cholerae systems were further studied. The expression vectors encoded fluorescent markers for the monitoring of the expression levels of different proteins and for studying the formation of complexes. In a first step, the different protein expression levels (EmrB-mRFP1 and EmrA-sfGFP) were studied for several expression strains of E. coli by measuring the red and green fluorescence levels and by Western blot (anti-His, Myc, and Strep for EmrB, EmrA, and TolC). The E. coli strain C41(DE3) was best suited for co-expression of EmrAB-TolC. In a second step, the FSEC (Fluorescence detection Size Exclusion Chromatography) method
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La pompe à efflux multidrogue de type MFS à trois composants EmrAB-TolC d’Escherichia coli : du clonage à l’analyse structurale
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