Mechanosensitive channels of Escherichia coli: The MscL gene, protein, and activities

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 1997, Pages 633-657

  Sukharev, Sergei I ^a   Blount, Paul ^a   Martinac, Boris ^b   Kung, Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

E. coli; MscL; osmotic forces; patch clamp; stretch activated channels

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CHANNEL GATING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORCE; GENE DELETION; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PATCH CLAMP; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

NASA DISCIPLINE CELL BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES; ION CHANNELS; MECHANORECEPTORS;

EID: 0030901623     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.59.1.633     Document Type: Review

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