Conformational changes of FtsZ reported by tryptophan mutants

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 4675-4684

  Chen, Yaodong ^a   Erickson, Harold P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; DOUBLE MUTANTS; E. COLI; N-TERMINALS; PROTOFILAMENTS; SIDE-CHAINS; SUB-DOMAINS; SUBDOMAIN; TRP-FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN MUTANT; VAN DER WAALS CONTACTS;

AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; QUENCHING; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

FLUORESCENCE;

2 DIETHYLAMINOETHANOL; CYSTEINE; FTSZ PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYMER; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

ACRYLAMIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 79958167357     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi200106d     Document Type: Article

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