Preprotein transfer to the Escherichia coli translocase requires the co-operative binding of SecB and the signal sequence to SecA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1179-1190

  Fekkes, Peter ^a   De Wit, Janny G ^a   Van Der Wolk, Jeroen P W ^a   Kimsey, Harvey H ^b   Kumamoto, Carol A ^b   Driessen, Arnold J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031656854     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00997.x     Document Type: Article

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