A subset of bacterial inner membrane proteins integrated by the twin-arginine translocase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1377-1390

  Hatzixanthis, Kostas ^a   Palmer, Tracy ^b   Sargent, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUFL; PROTEIN TORA; PROTEIN YIDC; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES, N-DEMETHYLATING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0141789788     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03642.x     Document Type: Article

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