Membrane targeting of a folded and cofactor-containing protein

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1211-1221

  Brüser, Thomas ^a,d   Yano, Takahiro ^b   Brune, Daniel C ^c   Daldal, Fevzi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATP dependence; High potential iron sulfur protein (HiPIP); In vitro folding; Membrane targeting; Twin arginine translocation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARGININE; GENOMIC DNA; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ALLOCHROMATIUM; ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0142065248     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03481.x     Document Type: Article

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