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Alexia Gobet1, Christine Jaxel2, Sandrine Magnard1
1Drug Resistance and Membrane Proteins Team, CNRS - Lyon 1 University UMR 5086, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Lyon, France.
Abstract:
We describe here the overproduction and oriented membrane insertion of membrane protein inside intracellular vesicles named heterologous caveolae within E. coli. The method is described with BmrA, a multidrug efflux pump from Bacillus subtilis. BmrA is produced in these vesicles, thanks to the coexpression with the canine caveolin-1β, one of the two isoforms of caveolin-1. Enriched by sucrose gradient, the caveolae-containing fraction allows to probe the ATPase and Hoechst 33342 transport activities, the latter displaying a higher specific activity than the same without caveolin-1β.
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