Probing the Putative Active Site of YjdL: An Unusual Proton-Coupled Oligopeptide Transporter from E. coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Jensen, Johanne Mørch ^a   Ismat, Fouzia ^b   Szakonyi, Gerda ^c,d   Rahman, Moazur ^b   Mirza, Osman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN YDGR; PROTEIN YJDL; SERINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DIPEPTIDES; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84867704017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047780     Document Type: Article

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