Transmembrane signaling across the ligand-gated FhuA receptor: Crystal structures of free and ferrichrome-bound states reveal allosteric changes

Cell

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 771-778

  Locher, Kaspar P ^a   Rees, Bernard ^b   Koebnik, Ralf ^c   Mitschler, André ^b   Moulinier, Luc ^b   Rosenbusch, Jurg P ^a   Moras, Dino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRICHROME; IRON; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON TRANSPORT; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032414254     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81700-6     Document Type: Article

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