Gating prokaryotic mechanosensitive channels

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-119

  Perozo, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VOLUME; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; ION CHANNELS; LIPID METABOLISM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33244458728     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1833     Document Type: Review

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