Structural insight into the protein translocation channel

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 390-396

  Clemons Jr , William M ^a   Ménétret, Jean Fraņois ^b   Akey, Christopher W ^b   Rapoport, Tom A ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ALPHA HELIX; CHANNEL GATING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSS LINKING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FREEZING; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAINING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOMES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4143107016     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.07.006     Document Type: Review

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