TRAP transporters: A new family of periplasmic solute transport systems encoded by the dctPQM genes of Rhodobacter capsulatus and by homologs in diverse gram-negative bacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5482-5493

  Forward, Jason A ^a   Behrendt, Mark C ^a   Wyborn, Neil R ^a   Cross, Richard ^a   Kelly, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MEMBRANE BINDING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030967906     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.17.5482-5493.1997     Document Type: Article

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