Investigation of the sodium-binding sites in the sodium-coupled betaine transporter BetP

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

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages

  Khafizov, Kamil ^a,c   Perez, Camilo ^a   Koshy, Caroline ^a   Quick, Matthias ^b   Fendler, Klaus ^a   Ziegler, Christine ^a,d   Forrest, Lucy R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkali metal ion; Membrane protein; Osmoregulation; Secondary transport; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN BETP; PROTEOLIPOSOME; SODIUM; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM;

EID: 84868108835     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209039109     Document Type: Article

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