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2.A.6.2.21
The multidrug (aminoglycosides, β-lactams, fluoroquinolones, macrolides, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, erythromycin, ofloxacin, etc.) efflux pump, MexXY-OprM (Jeannot et al., 2005).  The 3-d structurre of OprM (also called OprK) is known (1WP1). RND-type xenobiotic transporters recognize hydrophobic substrates such as organic solvents by their periplasmic domains and expel them to the external milieu (Li et al. 2006). The MexXY multidrug exporter is frequently overexpressed in ciprofloxacin resistant cells (Serra et al. 2019). Increased expression or overexpression ofMexXY-OprM efflux pumps is the leading cause of carbapenem (imigenem; meropenem) resistance (Petrova et al. 2019).

Accession Number:Q9ZNG8
Protein Name:MexY
Length:1046
Molecular Weight:113117.00
Species:Pseudomonas aeruginosa [287]
Number of TMSs:11
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Cell outer membrane1 / Lipid-anchor2
Substrate macrolide, fluoroquinolone antibiotic, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, beta-lactam, imipenem, tetracycline, amino cyclitol glycoside, erythromycin A, carbapenemcarboxylic acid

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Pfam: PF00873   

Gene Ontology

GO:0016021 C:integral to membrane
GO:0005215 F:transporter activity
GO:0006810 P:transport

References (1)

[1] “Expression in Escherichia coli of a new multidrug efflux pump, MexXY, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.”  Mine T.et.al.   9925549

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MARFFIDRPV FAWVISLLIV LAGVLAIRFL PVAQYPDIAP PVVNVSATYP GASAKVVEEA 
61:	VTAIIEREMN GAPGLLYTKA TSSTGQASLT LTFRQGVNAN LAAVEVQNRL KIVESRLPES 
121:	VRRDGIYVEK AADSIQLIVT LTSSSGRYDA MELGEIASSN VLQALRRVEG VGKVETWGAE 
181:	YAMRIWPDPA KLTSMNLSAS DLVNAVRRHN ARLTVGDIGN LGVPDSAPIS ATVKVDDTLV 
241:	TPEQFGEIPL AHPRDGGAIR LRDVARVEFG QSEYGFVSRV NQMTATGLAV KMAPGSNAVA 
301:	TAKRIRATLD ELSRYFPEGV SYNIPYDTSA FVEISIRKVV STLLEAMLLV FAVMYLFMQN 
361:	FRATLIPTLV VPVALLGTFT VMLGLGFSIN VLTMFGMVLA IGILVDDAII VVENVERLMA 
421:	EEGLSPHDAT VKAMRQISGA IVGITVVLVS VFVPMAFFSG AVGNIYRQFA VTLAVSIGFS 
481:	AFLALSLTPA LCATLLRPID ADHHEKRGFF GWFNRAFLRL TGRYRNAVAG ILARPIRWML 
541:	VYTLVIGVVA LLFVRLPQAF LPEEDQGDFM IMVMQPEGTP MAETMANVGD VERYLAEHEP 
601:	VAYAYAVGGF SLYGDGTSSA MIFATLKDWS ERREASQHVG AIVERINQRF AGLPNRTVYA 
661:	MNSPPLPDLG STSGFDFRLQ DRGGVGYEAL VKARDQLLAR AAEDPRLANV MFAGQGEAPQ 
721:	IRLDIDRRKA ETLGVSMDEI NTTLAVMFGS DYIGDFMHGS QVRKVVVQAD RRKRLGIDDI 
781:	GRLHVRNEQG EMGAAGDVRQ GRLDPRPAAT DPLQRLSLVQ PRGPGRAGLQ QREAMQAMEQ 
841:	LMQGTARGIR PRVVRPVLRR TPVAGAQAPA LFALSVLIVF LALAALYESW SIPLAVILVV 
901:	PLGVLGALLG VSLRGLPNDI YFKVGLITII GLSAKNAILI IEVAKDHYQE GMSLLQATLE 
961:	AARLRLRPIV MTSLAFGFGV VPLALSSGAG IRAQVAIGTG VLGGIVTATV LAVFLVPLFF 
1021:	LVVGRLFRLR KAPRTGNSPQ IPTEQA