Evidence against the double-arginine motif as the only determinant for protein translocation by a novel Sec-independent pathway in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 329-336

  Brüser, Thomas ^a   Deutzmann, Rainer ^b   Dahl, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatium vinosum; Double arginine motif signal peptide; Escherichia coli; High potential iron sulfur protein; Iron sulfur cluster; Protein translocation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIUM VINOSUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SODIUM AZIDE;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIUM; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM;

EID: 0039351902     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00233-X     Document Type: Article

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