Differential interactions between a twin-arginine signal peptide and its translocase in Escherichia coli

Molecular Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 937-946

  Alami, Meriem ^a   Lüke, Iris ^a   Deitermann, Sandra ^a   Eisner, Gottfried ^a   Koch, Hans Georg ^a   Brunner, Joseph ^b   Müller, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARRIER PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 10744228022     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00398-8     Document Type: Article

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