Purification and properties of the Escherichia coli nucleoside transporter NupG, a paradigm for a major facilitator transporter sub-family

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 323-336

  Xie, Hao ^a,b   Patching, Simon G ^a   Gallagher, Maurice P ^b   Litherland, Gary J ^b,d   Brough, Adrian R ^a   Venter, Henrietta ^a,e   Yao, Sylvia Y M ^c   Ng, Amy M L ^c   Young, James D ^c   Herbert, Richard B ^a   Henderson, Peter J F ^a   Baldwin, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Major facilitator super family; Nucleoside; Solid state NMR; Transport

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENOSINE; CYTIDINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; GUANOSINE; HYPOXANTHINE; INOSINE; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER; PROTEIN NUPG; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE; RIBOSE; THYMIDINE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL; URIDINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSPORT KINETICS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE; XENOPUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 8144221884     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687860400003941     Document Type: Article

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