Mechanosensitive channels in bacteria: Signs of closure?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 431-440

  Booth, Ian R ^a   Edwards, Michelle D ^a   Black, Susan ^a   Schumann, Ulrike ^a   Miller, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POTASSIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID BILAYER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34249106198     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1659     Document Type: Review

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