Escherichia coli SecB stimulates export without maintaining export competence of ribose-binding protein signal sequence mutants

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 5954-5959

  Francetic, Olivera ^a,b,c   Kumamoto, Carol A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Inst of Molec Genet/Genet Eng   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029796043     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.20.5954-5959.1996     Document Type: Article

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