Biophysical studies of the membrane-embedded and cytoplasmic forms of the glucose-specific enzyme II of the E. coli phosphotransferase system (PTS)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Aboulwafa, Mohammad ^a,b   Saier Jr , Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUCOSE ENZYME II; HETERODIMER; HOMODIMER; MONOMER; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; GLUCOSE; LIPID; OCTOXINOL;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID BILAYER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICELLE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GLUCOSE; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICELLES; OCTOXYNOL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES;

EID: 80052841823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024088     Document Type: Article

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