The structure of the Sec complex and the problem of protein translocation

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1099-1103

  Robson, Alice ^a   Collinson, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN SEC61; SECY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSOL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33750515887     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400832     Document Type: Review

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