Structure of P-glycoprotein reveals a molecular basis for poly-specific drug binding.
Aller, S.G., Yu, J., Ward, A., Weng, Y., Chittaboina, S., Zhuo, R., Harrell, P.M., Trinh, Y.T., Zhang, Q., Urbatsch, I.L., Chang, G.(2009) Science 323: 1718-1722
- PubMed: 19325113 
- DOI: 10.1126/science.1168750
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
- PubMed Abstract: 
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) detoxifies cells by exporting hundreds of chemically unrelated toxins but has been implicated in multidrug resistance (MDR) in the treatment of cancers. Substrate promiscuity is a hallmark of P-gp activity, thus a structural des ...