On the role of individual subunits in MscL gating: "All for one, one for all?"

FASEB Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 882-892

  Mika, Jacek T ^a   Birkner, Jan P ^a   Poolman, Bert ^a,b   Koçer, Armaǧan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DCFBA; Electrophysiology; Functional reconstitution; Heterooligomer formation; Mechanosensitive channel; Pore diameter

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL OF LARGE CONDUCTANCE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; LIPOSOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

EID: 84874603235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-214361     Document Type: Article

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