The C-Terminal Domain of the Betaine Carrier BetP of Corynebacterium glutamicum Is Directly Involved in Sensing K+ as an Osmotic Stimulus

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 5583-5591

  Schiller, Dirk ^a   Rübenhagen, René ^b   Krämer, Reinhard ^a   Morbach, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; OSMOSIS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PURIFICATION;

OSMOREGULATORS; OSMOSENSORS; PROTEOLIPOSOMES; PROTEOLYSIS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

AMINO ACID; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN BETP; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOLIPOSOME; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GLYCINE; KINETICS; LIPOSOMES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOLIPIDS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 2442444493     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0359628     Document Type: Article

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