A Facile Reporter System for the Experimental Identification of Twin-Arginine Translocation (Tat) Signal Peptides from All Kingdoms of Life

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 375, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 595-603

  Widdick, David A ^a,b   Eijlander, Robyn T ^c   van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^d   Kuipers, Oscar P ^c   Palmer, Tracy ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

protein export; reporter system; Streptomyces; Tat system; twin arginine signal peptide

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 37349115561     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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