Functional and structural conservation in the mechanosensitive channel MscL implicates elements crucial for mechanosensation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 583-592

  Woe, Paul C ^a   Blount, Paul ^a   Kung, Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; ION CONDUCTANCE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPHEROPLASTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 7144257172     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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