Mechanism of ligand-gated potassium efflux in bacterial pathogens

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

Volumn 107, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 19784-19789

  Roosild, Tarmo P ^a   Castronovo, Samantha ^a   Healy, Jess ^b,c   Miller, Samantha ^b   Pliotas, Christos ^b   Rasmussen, Tim ^b   Bartlett, Wendy ^b   Conway, Stuart J ^d   Booth, Ian R ^b  

^a NEVADA CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel regulation; KTN structure

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; PHENYLALANINE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KEF; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KEFC; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT AND NAD BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ELECTROPHILICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 78649993856     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012716107     Document Type: Article

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