Structural involvement in substrate recognition of an essential aspartate residue conserved in Mep/Amt and Rh-type ammonium transporters

Current Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 364-374

  Marini, Anna Maria ^a   Boeckstaens, Mélanie ^a   Benjelloun, Fatine ^b   Chérif Zahar, Baya ^b   André, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Pseudohyphae; Transport; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; ALANINE; AMMONIA; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYL GROUP; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; ENZYME VARIANT; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMT; PROTEIN MEP; PROTEIN RH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SENSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ACID; BLOOD PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33646702613     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0062-5     Document Type: Article

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