Specific in vivo thiol-labeling of the FhuA outer membrane ferrichrome transport protein of Escherichia coli K-12: Evidence for a disulfide bridge in the predicted gating loop

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-319

  Bös, Christoph ^a   Braun, Volkmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disulfide labeling; Escherichia coli; FhuA; Gating loop

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BIOTIN; DISULFIDE; MALEIMIDE; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; DENATURATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BIOTIN; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERRICHROME; HEAT; LIGANDS; MALEIMIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 17144460910     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00265-6     Document Type: Article

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