Membrane protein folding on the example of outer membrane protein A of Escherichia coli

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1547-1558

  Kleinschmidt, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lipid protein interactions; Lipopolysaccharide; Membrane protein chaperones; Membrane protein folding; OmpA; Outer membrane proteins; Protein insertion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; CHAPERONE; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; GENE INSERTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0042878499     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-003-3170-0     Document Type: Review

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