Bacterial mechanosensitive channels-MscS: Evolution's solution to creating sensitivity in function

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 157-177

  Naismith, James H ^a   Booth, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystallography; EPR; Ion channel; Modeling; Mutagenesis; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL OF SMALL CONDUCTANCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861365324     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-101211-113227     Document Type: Review

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