SecA: A tale of two protomers: MicroReview

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1070-1081

  Sardis, Marios Frantzeskos ^a,b   Economou, Anastassios ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DIMER; MONOMER; PROTEIN SECA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CATALYSIS; CELL VIABILITY; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EUKARYOTA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77952850206     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07176.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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