Periplasmic loops of osmosensory transporter ProP in Escherichia coli are sensitive to osmolality

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 13584-13593

  Culham, Doreen E ^b   Vernikovska, Yaroslava ^c   Tschowri, Natalia ^b,d   Keates, Robert A B ^b   Wood, Janet M ^b   Boggs, Joan M ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES; CYS RESIDUES; IN CELLS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOSENSING; OSMOTIC PRESSURES; PERIPLASMIC LOOPS; PROTEOLIPOSOMES; PROTONMOTIVE FORCES; TRANSMEMBRANE SEGMENTS; TRANSPORT ACTIVITIES;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORGANIC ACIDS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

OSMOSIS;

CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; PROTEIN PROP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTONS; SYMPORTERS; WATER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58149142961     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801576x     Document Type: Article

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