Touch and go: Tying TonB to transport

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 869-882

  Postle, Kathleen ^a   Kadner, Robert J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; IRON; PROTEIN TONB; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IRON; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0042065285     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03629.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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