Stop-transfer efficiency of marginally hydrophobic segments depends on the length of the carboxy-terminal tail

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 178-183

  Hessa, Tara ^a   Monné, Magnus ^a,b   von Heijne, Gunnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENETIC CODE; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; START CODON; STOP CODON; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM MEMBRANE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; KINETICS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STOP TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

EID: 0037298237     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor728     Document Type: Article

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