Use of thioredoxin as a reporter to identify a subset of Escherichia coli signal sequences that promote signal recognition particle-dependent translocation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2983-2991

  Huber, Damon ^a   Boyd, Dana ^a   Xia, Yu ^b   Olma, Michael H ^c   Gerstein, Mark ^b   Beckwith, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DSBA PROTEIN; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; THIOREDOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DRUG MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROPHOBICITY; PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; THIOREDOXIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 17644386832     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.9.2983-2991.2005     Document Type: Article

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