Moving folded proteins across the bacterial cell membrane

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 547-556

  Palmer, Tracy ^a,b   Berks, Ben C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARRIER PROTEIN; ION; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN; PROTON; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL RESPIRATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037352234     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25900-0     Document Type: Review

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