Molecular dissection of TatC defines critical regions essential for protein transport and a TatB-TatC contact site

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 945-961

  Kneuper, Holger ^a   Maldonado, Barbara ^a   Jäger, Franziska ^a   Krehenbrink, Martin ^b   Buchanan, Grant ^a   Keller, Rebecca ^a   Müller, Matthias ^c   Berks, Ben C ^b   Palmer, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; TATB PROTEIN; TATC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TATC GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84865539391     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08151.x     Document Type: Article

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