Mitochondria unfold precursor proteins by unraveling them from their N- termini

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1132-1138

  Huang, Shihai ^a   Ratliff, Kevin S ^a   Schwartz, Michael P ^a   Spenner, Jonathan M ^a   Matouschek, Andreas ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; ENZYME STABILITY; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN RENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASES; SOLUTIONS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0032708369     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70073     Document Type: Article

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