The role of the carboxyl terminal α-helical coiled-coil domain in osmosensing by transporter ProP of Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 309-322

  Culham, Doreen E ^a   Tripet, Brian ^b   Racher, Kathleen I ^a   Voegele, Ralf T ^a,c   Hodges, Robert S ^b   Wood, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coiled coil; Compatible solute; Escherichia coli; Osmoprotectant; Osmoregulation; Osmosensor; ProP; Transporter

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; COILED COIL; CYTOPLASM; IN VIVO STUDY; OSMOSIS; PROP PROTEIN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; WILD RELATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMPORTERS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033833792     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1352(200009/10)13:5<309::AID-JMR505>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Review

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