Crystals of acetylated SecB diffract to 2.3-Å resolution

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-242

  Dekker, Carien ^a,b   De Kruijff, Ben ^a   De Korte Kool, Gerda ^a   Kroon, Jan ^b   Gros, Piet ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Chaperone; Crystallization; Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; SecB; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEACETYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033619920     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4179     Document Type: Article

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