Spectroscopic studies of the C-terminal secretion signal of the Serratia marcescens haem acquisition protein (HasA) in various membrane-mimetic environments

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 400-407

  Wolff, Nicolas ^a   Delepelaire, Philippe ^a,b   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^b   Delepierre, Muriel ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Liposome; Micelle; Peptide structure; Secretion; Trifluoroethanol

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BINDING PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ERWINIA; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICELLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 0031020832     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.0400a.x     Document Type: Article

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