Proton-conductivity assay of plugged and unplugged MotA/B proton channel by cytoplasmic pHluorin expressed in Salmonella

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1268-1272

  Morimoto, Yusuke V ^a   Che, Yong Suk ^a   Minamino, Tohru ^a,b   Namba, Keiichi ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial flagellar motor; Chemotaxis; Intracellular pH; PHluorin; Proton conductance; Stator complex

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHLUORIN; PROTEIN MOTA; PROTEIN MOTB; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PH; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTON PUMPS; PROTONS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA;

EID: 77950369485     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.02.051     Document Type: Article

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