A reporter platform for the Monitoring of in Vivo conformational changes in AcrB

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 863-871

  Lu, Wei ^a   Zhong, Meng ^a   Wei, Yinan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disulfide trapping; Protein tertiary and quaternary structures

Indexed keywords

ACRE PROTEIN, E COLI; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79959419297     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611796011446     Document Type: Article

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