The SecY complex: Conducting the orchestra of protein translocation

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 506-514

  Dalal, Kush ^a   Duong, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN FTSY; PROTEIN SECA; PROTEIN SYD; SECY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80052163308     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2011.04.005     Document Type: Review

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