Role of the irreplaceable residues in the LacY alternating access mechanism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12438-12442

  Zhou, Yonggang ^a   Jiang, Xiaoxu ^a   Kaback, H Ronald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane protein; Membranes; Protein dynamics; Transport

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSIDE; LACTOSE PERMEASE; SUGAR;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CYTOPLASM; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LACTOSE; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SYMPORTERS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864526188     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210684109     Document Type: Article

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