Translocation of proteins across archaeal cytoplasmic membranes

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-24

  Pohlschröder, Mechthild ^a   Dilks, Kieran ^a   Hand, Nicholas J ^a   Rose, R Wesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Protein translocation; Sec system; Tat system

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DOCKING PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLOROPLAST; ENERGY TRANSFER; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1242351243     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsre.2003.07.004     Document Type: Review

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