Contribution of positively charged flanking residues to the insertion of transmembrane helices into the endoplasmic reticulum

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4127-4132

  Lerch Bader, Mirjam ^a   Lundin, Carolina ^a   Kim, Hyun ^a   Nilsson, IngMarie ^a   Von Heijne, Gunnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hydrophobicity scale; Membrane protein; Positive inside rule; Translocon

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; LYSINE; CATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DOG; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

CATIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 41949125627     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711580105     Document Type: Article

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