Two families of mechanosensitive channel proteins

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 66-85

  Pivetti, Christopher D ^a   Yen, Ming Ren ^a,b   Miller, Samantha ^c   Busch, Wolfgang ^a   Tseng, Yi Hsiung ^b   Booth, Ian R ^c   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE CONDUCTANCE MS CHANNEL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIMILAR TO LARGE CONDUCTANCE MS CHANNEL PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037335595     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.67.1.66-85.2003     Document Type: Review

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