The glove-like structure of the conserved membrane protein tatc provides insight into signal sequence recognition in twin-arginine translocation

Structure

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 777-788

  Ramasamy, Sureshkumar ^a   Abrol, Ravinder ^a   Suloway, Christian J M ^a   Clemons Jr , William M ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOPHILE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS;

EID: 84877583210     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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