Evidence for dynamic clustering of carboxy-terminal aromatic amino acids in TonB-dependent energy transduction

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 203-213

  Ghosh, Joydeep ^a   Postle, Kathleen ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; FERRICHROME; IRON 55; PROTEIN; TONB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0346334403     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03816.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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