Lateral opening of a translocon upon entry of protein suggests the mechanism of insertion into membranes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17182-17187

  Egea, Pascal F ^a   Stroud, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane protein folding; Nascent protein chain; Secretion; Translocation

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; TRANSLOCON;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RIBOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

EID: 78049253482     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012556107     Document Type: Article

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