Amino acids that confer transport of raffinose and maltose sugars in the raffinose permease (RafB) of Escherichia coli as implicated by spontaneous mutations at Val-35, Ser-138, Ser-139, Gly-389 and Ile-391

Journal of Membrane Biology

Volumn 220, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 87-95

  Van Camp, Bonnie M ^a   Crow, Robert R ^a   Peng, Yang ^a   Varela, Manuel F ^a  

^a EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Bacteria; Maltose; Mutation; Permease; Raffinose; Secondary active transport; Sugar; Symport

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MALTOSE; PERMEASE; RAFFINOSE; RAFFINOSE PERMEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUGAR TRANSPORT; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MALTOSE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RAFFINOSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 37449002533     PISSN: 00222631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00232-007-9077-1     Document Type: Article

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