The kamikaze approach to membrane transport

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 610-620

  Kaback, H Ronald ^a   Sahin Tóth, Miklós ^a   Weinglass, Adam B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; HYBRID PROTEIN; LACTOSE; LACTOSE PERMEASE; LACY PROTEIN, E COLI; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; PROTON; THIOL REAGENT;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LONG QT SYNDROME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHYLMALEIMIDE; HUMANS; LACTOSE; LONG QT SYNDROME; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTONS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS; SYMPORTERS;

EID: 0035433202     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35085077     Document Type: Review

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