Apo-intermediate in the transport cycle of lactose permease (LacY)

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

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages

  Madej, M Gregor ^a   Soro, Sonya N ^a   Kaback, H Ronald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformational change; Membrane proteins; Membrane transport; Modeling

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE PERMEASE; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84868095500     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211183109     Document Type: Article

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