The "Transport Specificity Ratio": A structure-function tool to search the protein fold for loci that control transition state stability in membrane transport catalysis

BMC Biochemistry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  King, Steven C ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; ENZYME VARIANT; NIPECOTIC ACID; PERMEASE; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REACTION ANALYSIS;

BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NIPECOTIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 12344273080     PISSN: 14712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-5-16     Document Type: Article

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