Competition between Sec- and TAT-dependent protein translocation in Escherichia coli

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2982-2990

  Cristóbal, Susana ^a   De Gier, Jan Willem ^a   Nielsen, Henrik ^b   Von Heijne, Gunnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Membrane protein; Protein secretion; Sec pathway; TaT pathway

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE; KINETICS; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SPHEROPLASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0040537042     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.11.2982     Document Type: Article

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