ABC transporters: The power to change

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 218-227

  Rees, Douglas C ^a   Johnson, Eric ^a   Lewinson, Oded ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 60749083913     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2646     Document Type: Review

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