Kinetics of precursor interactions with the bacterial Tat translocase detected by real-time FRET

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 11252-11260

  Whitaker, Neal ^a   Bageshwar, Umesh K ^a   Musser, Siegfried M ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C TERMINUS; ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENTS; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IN-VITRO; INNER MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE VESICLES; PERIPLASMIC SPACE; PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION; SYSTEM TRANSPORT; TAT PROTEIN; TIME RESOLUTION; TRANSLOCASES; TRANSLOCATION PROCESS; TRANSLOCON; TRANSPORT ASSAYS; TRANSPORT RATE; TRANSPORT TIME; TWIN-ARGININE TRANSLOCATIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEINS;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION B PROTEIN; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION BC RECEPTOR COMPLEX; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION C PROTEIN; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; INVERTED MEMBRANE VESICLE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84859495977     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.324525     Document Type: Article

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