Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis and thiol modification of the Rickettsia prowazekii ATP/ADP translocase: Characterization of TMs IV-VII and IX-XII and their accessibility to the aqueous translocation pathway

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2648-2656

  Audia, Jonathon P ^a   Roberts, Rosemary A W ^a   Winkler, Herbert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYMES; SULFUR DEPOSITS;

CYSTEINE SUBSTITUTION; METHANETHIOSULFONATE (MTS); MTS REAGENTS; TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAINS (TMS);

MUTAGENESIS;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYSTEINE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; THIOL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOLIPOSOME; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEREOSPECIFICITY; WILD TYPE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CYSTEINE; MESYLATES; MITOCHONDRIAL ADP, ATP TRANSLOCASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

EID: 33644500760     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052024u     Document Type: Article

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