Membrane segment organization in the stator complex of the flagellar motor: Implications for proton flow and proton-induced conformational change

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 11332-11339

  Kim, Eun A ^a   Price Carter, Marian ^a   Carlquist, William C ^a   Blair, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANES; MODEL STRUCTURES; MOTORS; PROTEINS; ROTATION; STATORS;

BACTERIAL FLAGELLAR; CLOSE PROXIMITIES; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; CROSS-LINKING; CYS RESIDUES; EXPLICIT MODELS; FLAGELLAR MOTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PERIPLASM; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

PROTONS;

ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; PROTON;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELLULAR STRUCTURES; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 54849421748     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801347a     Document Type: Article

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