Voltage-gating of Escherichia coli porin: A cystine-scanning mutagenesis study of loop 3

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-176

  Bainbridge, Graeme ^a   Mobasheri, Hamid ^b   Armstrong, Geoffrey A ^a   Lea, Edward J A ^b   Lakey, Jeremy H ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disulphide; OmpF; Planar bilayers; Porin; Voltage gating

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PORIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIMULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032536195     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1474     Document Type: Article

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