Structural analysis of substrate binding by the TatBC component of the twin-arginine protein transport system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13284-13289

  Tarry, Michael J ^a,e   Schäfer, Eva ^b,f   Chen, Shuyun ^a   Buchanan, Grant ^c   Greene, Nicholas P ^a   Lea, Susan M ^d   Palmer, Tracy ^c   Saibil, Helen R ^b   Berks, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blue native PAGE; Escherichia coli; Membrane protein; Single particle electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TATA PROTEIN; TATBC CUEO PROTEIN COMPLEX; TATBC PROTEIN; TATBC SUFL PROTEIN COMPLEX; TATC PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; THYLAKOID MEMBRANE;

ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69449089578     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901566106     Document Type: Article

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