Crystal structure of the outer membrane active transporter FepA from Escherichia coli

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-63

  Buchanan, Susan K ^a,c   Smith, Barbara S ^a   Venkatramani, Lalitha ^b   Xia, Di ^a   Esser, Lothar ^a   Palnitkar, Maya ^a   Chakraborty, Ranjan ^b   Van Der Helm, Dick ^b   Deisenhofer, Johann ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ENTEROCHELIN; FERRIC ION; IRON CHELATE; LIGAND; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 0032900438     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4931     Document Type: Article

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