Direct visualization reveals dynamics of a transient intermediate during protein assembly

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

Volumn 108, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6450-6455

  Zhang, Xin ^a,d   Lam, Vinh Q ^a   Mou, Yun ^a   Kimura, Tetsunari ^a,b,e   Chung, Jaeyoon ^a   Chandrasekar, Sowmya ^a   Winkler, Jay R ^a,b   Mayo, Stephen L ^a,c   Shan, Shu Ou ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

EPR spectroscopy; Fluorescence spectroscopy; GTPases; Molecular recognition; Protein targeting

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

EID: 79955585362     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019051108     Document Type: Article

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