Death of the tonb shuttle hypothesis

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Gresock, Michael G ^a   Savenkova, Marina I ^b   Larsen, Ray A ^b,c   Ollis, Anne A ^a   Postle, Kathleen ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy transduction; Membrane proteins; Ogm membrane permeability; Tonb

Indexed keywords

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84855805755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00206     Document Type: Article

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