Oligomeric properties and signal peptide binding by Escherichia coli Tat protein transport complexes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1135-1146

  De Leeuw, Erik ^a   Granjon, Thierry ^a   Porcelli, Ida ^a   Alami, Meriem ^b   Carr, Stephen B ^c   Müller, Matthias ^b   Sargent, Frank ^c   Palmer, Tracy ^c,d   Berks, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Escherichia coli; Tat protein transport; Tryptophan fluorescence; Twin arginine signal peptide

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036412417     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00820-3     Document Type: Article

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