SecA is an intrinsic subunit of the Escherichia coli preprotein translocase and exposes its carboxyl terminus to the periplasm

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 619-629

  Van Der Does, Chris ^a   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^a   De Wit, Janny G ^a   Manting, Erik H ^a   Groot, Nancy A ^a   Fekkes, Peter ^a   Driessen, Arnold J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSLOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029837129     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.d01-1712.x     Document Type: Article

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