Structural and functional diversity of bacterial membrane fusion proteins

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1794, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 794-807

  Zgurskaya, Helen I ^a   Yamada, Yoichi ^a   Tikhonova, Elena B ^a   Ge, Qiang ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ganesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane fusion protein; Membrane transport; Multidrug efflux; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ACRA; PROTEIN BESA; PROTEIN CUSA; PROTEIN CUSB; PROTEIN EMRA; PROTEIN EMRK; PROTEIN MACA; PROTEIN MEXA; PROTEIN MEXB; PROTEIN MF; PROTEIN RND; PROTEIN VEXI; PROTEIN VEXJ; PROTEIN VEXL; PROTEIN YKNX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OUTER MEMBRANE; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 64649087897     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.10.010     Document Type: Review

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