In vivo and in vitro studies of major surface loop deletion mutants of the Escherichia coli K-12 maltoporin: Contribution to maltose and maltooligosaccharide transport and binding

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 851-867

  Andersen, Christian ^a   Bachmeyer, Christoph ^a   Täuber, Harald ^a   Benz, Roland ^a   Wang, Jiang ^b,c   Michel, Valérie ^b   Newton, Salete M C ^b,d   Hofnung, Maurice ^b   Charbit, Alain ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; MALTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PORIN; STARCH;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TITRIMETRY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032970556     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01406.x     Document Type: Article

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