Intragenic suppression of gain-of-function mutations in the Escherichia coli mechanosensitive channel, MscL

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 485-495

  Li, Yuezhou ^a   Wray, Robin ^a   Blount, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3242889840     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04150.x     Document Type: Article

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