TonB-dependent transporters: Regulation, structure, and function

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2010, Pages 43-60

  Noinaj, Nicholas ^a   Guillier, Maude ^b   Barnard, Travis J ^a   Buchanan, Susan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

active transport; outer membrane protein; siderophore; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXBB PROTEIN; FERROUS ION; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CIRA; PROTEIN EXBD; PROTEIN FECA; PROTEIN FEPA; TONB DEPENDENT TRANSPORTER; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NICKEL; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE; SIDEROPHORES; VITAMIN B 12;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956505672     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.112408.134247     Document Type: Review

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