Protein translocation across the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum and bacterial plasma membranes

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 663-669

  Rapoport, Tom A ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; MEMBRANE; PLASMA; PROTEIN; TRANSLOCATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36749001066     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06384     Document Type: Review

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