Identification of positively charged residues of FomA porin of Fusobacterium nucleatum which are important for pore function

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 818-824

  Kleivdal, Hans ^a   Benz, Roland ^b   Tommassen, Jan ^b   Jensen, Harald B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

FomA; Ion selectivity; Pore constriction zone; Porin; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

CEFALORIDINE; PORIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; LIPID BILAYER; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGININE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; LACTAMS; LIPID BILAYERS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PORINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0033559640     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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