Loss-of-Function Mutations at the Rim of the Funnel of Mechanosensitive Channel MscL

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2113-2120

  Yoshimura, Kenjiro ^a,b   Nomura, Takeshi ^b   Sokabe, Masahiro ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 1942423623     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74270-8     Document Type: Article

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