Structural model of the gas vesicle protein GvpA and analysis of GvpA mutants in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-68

  Strunk, Timo ^a   Hamacher, Kay ^b   Hoffgaard, Franziska ^b   Engelhardt, Harald ^c   Zillig, Martina Daniela ^b   Faist, Karin ^b   Wenzel, Wolfgang ^a   Pfeifer, Felicitas ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GAS VESICLE PROTEIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EURYARCHAEOTA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

HALOBACTERIA;

EID: 79959562522     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07669.x     Document Type: Article

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