The oligomeric state of the truncated mechanosensitive channel of large conductance shows no variance in vivo

Protein Science

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1638-1642

  Iscla, Irene ^a   Wray, Robin ^a   Blount, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detergent solubilization; Disulfide trapping; Mechanosensitive channel; Oligomerization; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; DISULFIDE; ION CHANNEL; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL OF LARGE CONDUCTANCE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84860390116     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.686     Document Type: Article

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