An Escherichia coli twin-arginine signal peptide switches between helical and unstructured conformations depending on the hydrophobicity of the environment

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3345-3352

  San Miguel, Miguel ^a   Marrington, Rachel ^b   Rodger, P Mark ^b   Rodger, Alison ^b   Robinson, Colin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Protein transport; Signal peptide; SufI; Tat system; Twin arginine translocation

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TWIN ARGININE SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CATALYSIS; CHLOROPLAST; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOSTABILITY;

ARGININE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0042928465     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03710.x     Document Type: Article

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