The roles of pore ring and plug in the secY protein-conducting channel

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 709-719

  Gumbart, James ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOPEPTIDE; SECY PROTEIN; TRANSLOCON; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; SECY PROTEIN, E COLI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; FORCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; WATER PERMEABILITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 59649110315     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 15407748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200810062     Document Type: Article

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