Tilted, extended, and lying in wait: The membrane-bound topology of residues Lys-381-Ser-405 of the colicin E1 channel domain

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6074-6085

  Wei, Zhikui ^a   White, Dawn ^a   Wang, Jie ^b   Musse, Abdiwahab A ^a   Merrill, A Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

BILAYERS; DUAL QUENCHER ANALYSIS; HARMONIC WAVE FUNCTION; MEMBRANE BINDING;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

ALANINE; BROMOBIMANE; COLICIN E1; CYSTEINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE; VALINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COLICINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPID BILAYERS; LYSINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SERINE;

EID: 34249010481     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi700317k     Document Type: Article

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