Characterisation of the membrane-extrinsic domain of the TatB component of the twin arginine protein translocase

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 478-484

  Maldonado, Barbara ^a   Kneuper, Holger ^a   Buchanan, Grant ^a   Hatzixanthis, Kostas ^b,c   Sargent, Frank ^a   Berks, Ben C ^d   Palmer, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mutagenesis; Protein transport; Protein:protein interaction; Tat pathway; TatB; Twin arginine signal peptide

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN TATB; PROTEIN TATC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SECRETORY PATHWAY; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79551493691     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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