Structure of the periplasmic chaperone Skp suggests functional similarity with cytosolic chaperones despite differing architecture

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1015-1020

  Korndörfer, Ingo P ^a   Dommel, Monica K ^a   Skerra, Arne ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PREFOLDIN; S PHASE KINASE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4744373535     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb828     Document Type: Article

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