Structural elements of the mitochondrial preprotein-conducting channel Tom40 dissolved by bioinformatics and mass spectrometry

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1807, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1647-1657

  Gessmann, Dennis ^a   Flinner, Nadine ^b,d   Pfannstiel, Jens ^e   Schlösinger, Andrea ^a   Schleiff, Enrico ^b,c,d   Nussberger, Stephan ^a   Mirus, Oliver ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Centre of Membrane Proteomics   (Germany)

^c Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes ^*  (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

barrel; Eukaryotic porin; Mitochondria; Protein translocation; Tom40; VDAC

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PORIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEINASE; TOM40 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MODEL; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL 1;

EUKARYOTA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 81155139735     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: 18792650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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