Mapping of the signal peptide-binding domain of Escherichia coli SecA using förster resonance energy transfer

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 782-792

  Auclair, Sarah M ^a   Moses, Julia P ^b   Musial Siwek, Monika ^b   Kendall, Debra A ^b   Oliver, Donald B ^a   Mukerji, Ishita ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BINDING AFFINITIES; BINDING DOMAIN; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; EQUILIBRIUM BINDING CONSTANT; FLUORESCENCE ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR BASIS; MULTI DOMAINS; NANOMOTORS; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING DOMAIN; PREPROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION; PROTEIN-CONDUCTING CHANNELS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE ENCODING; MONOMERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHATASES; RESONANCE; STOICHIOMETRY;

BINDING ENERGY;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; DIMER; FLUORESCENT DYE; MONOMER; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SECA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUOROMETRY; FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 75149188769     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901446r     Document Type: Article

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