A cationic lumen in the Wzx flippase mediates anionic O-antigen subunit translocation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1165-1176

  Islam, Salim T ^a   Fieldhouse, Robert J ^a   Anderson, Erin M ^a   Taylor, Véronique L ^a   Keates, Robert A B ^a   Ford, Robert C ^b   Lam, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; FLIPPASE WZX; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; O ANTIGENS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84865157678     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08084.x     Document Type: Article

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