A biphasic pulling force acts on transmembrane helices during translocon-mediated membrane integration

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1018-1023

  Ismail, Nurzian ^a   Hedman, Rickard ^a   Schiller, Nina ^a   Von Heijne, Gunnar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SECM; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIPHASIC PULLING FORCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FORCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIBOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; DOGS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84867218476     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2376     Document Type: Article

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