ΔμH+ dependency of in vitro protein translocation into Escherichia coli inner-membrane vesicles varies with the signal-sequence core-region composition

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1205-1214

  Nouwen, Nico ^a   De Kruijff, Ben ^a   Tommassen, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PORINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029670438     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02466.x     Document Type: Article

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