Escherichia coli TolA tolerates multiple amino-acid substitutions as revealed by screening randomized variants for membrane integrity and phage receptor function

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-88

  Karlsson, Fredrik ^a   Malmborg Hager, Ann Christin ^a,b   Borrebaeck, Carl A K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Alligator Bioscience AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Functional screening; Randomized TolA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN TOLA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL MEMBRANE; COLIPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE LIBRARY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; GOSSWEILERODENDRON BALSAMIFERUM;

EID: 33646775316     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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