Transmembrane insertion of twin-arginine signal peptides is driven by TatC and regulated by TatB

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fröbel, Julia ^a   Rose, Patrick ^a   Lausberg, Frank ^b   Blümmel, Anne Sophie ^a   Freudl, Roland ^b   Müller, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TATB PROTEIN; TATC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; CHLOROPLAST; MATURATION; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMEMBRANE INSERTION;

EID: 84871785408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2308     Document Type: Article

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