The ATP-binding cassette transporter Cbc (choline/betaine/carnitine) recruits multiple substrate-binding proteins with strong specificity for distinct quaternary ammonium compounds

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-45

  Chen, Chiliang ^a   Malek, Adel A ^b   Wargo, Matthew J ^b,c   Hogan, Deborah A ^b   Beattie, Gwyn A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER CBC; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; BETAINE; CARNITINE; CHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAINE; CARNITINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINE; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 72949101439     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06962.x     Document Type: Article

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