The superoxide dismutase SodA is targeted to the periplasm in a SecA-dependent manner by a novel mechanism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 164-179

  Krehenbrink, Martin ^a   Edwards, Anne ^a   Downie, J Allan ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PROTEIN SECA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; TATC GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE 3841;

EID: 80053229280     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07803.x     Document Type: Article

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