Engineering covalent oligomers of the mechanosensitive channel of large conductance from Escherichia coli with native conductance and gating characteristics

Protein Science

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2947-2954

  Folgering, Joost H A ^a   Wolters, Justina C ^a   Poolman, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Covalently linked oligomer; Membrane proteins; MscL; Oligomeric structure; Structure function studies

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHANNEL GATING; CONDUCTANCE; COVALENT BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 28844474546     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.051679005     Document Type: Article

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