Interactions of mitochondrial presequence peptides with the mitochondrial outer membrane preprotein translocase TOM

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 774-781

  Romero Ruiz, Mercedes ^a   Mahendran, Kozhinjampara R ^b   Eckert, Reiner ^a   Winterhalter, Mathias ^b   Nussberger, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TOM TRANSLOCASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955704800     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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