Investigating the SecY plug movement at the SecYEG translocation channel

EMBO Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3380-3388

  Tam, Patrick C K ^a   Maillard, Antoine P ^a   Chan, Kenneth K Y ^a   Duong, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel; Gating; Oligomer; Sec complex; Translocon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; POLYPEPTIDE; SECG PROTEIN; SECY PROTEIN; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYSTEINE; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27144525002     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600804     Document Type: Article

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