Hydrophobic gating of mechanosensitive channel of large conductance evidenced by single-subunit resolution

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

Volumn 109, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 12944-12949

  Birkner, Jan Peter ^a   Poolman, Bert ^a,b,c   Koçer, Armaǧan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS PROTEOMICS CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Duet gene expression; Homooligomeric protein; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL OF LARGE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; LIPOSOMES; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864674576     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205270109     Document Type: Article

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