Glycine-rich transmembrane helix 10 in the staphylococcal tetracycline transporter TetA(K) lines a solvent-accessible channel

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 15661-15669

  Hassan, Karl A ^a   Robinson, Katie L ^a   Smith, Alison N ^a   Gibson, Joanne H ^a,b   Skurray, Ronald A ^a   Brown, Melissa H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN MALEIMIDE; GLYCINE RICH TRANSMEMBRANE; SOLVENT CCESSIBLE CHANNEL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL TETRACYCLINE TRANSPORTER;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

CARRIER PROTEIN; FLUORESCEIN; GLYCINE; MALEIMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE TRANSPORTER TETA(K); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLVENT EFFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TET A GENE;

ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCEINS; GLYCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33845931882     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0614380     Document Type: Article

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