Structure of the proton-gated urea channel from the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7431, 2013, Pages 255-258

  Strugatsky, David ^a   McNulty, Reginald ^b,f   Munson, Keith ^a   Chen, Chiung Kuang ^b   Michael Soltis, S ^c   Sachs, George ^a   Luecke, Hartmut ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Irvine   (United States)

^f SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; PHENYLALANINE; THIOUREA; TRYPTOPHAN; UREA;

BACTERIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYTOPLASM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; LIPID; MEMBRANE; MUTATION; NEUTRALIZATION; PATHOGEN; PH; SURVIVAL; UREA;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTON GATED INNER MEMBRANE UREA CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTONS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; UREA;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84872146541     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11684     Document Type: Article

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