The transmembrane domain of the T4SS coupling protein TrwB and its role in protein-protein interactions

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1828, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2015-2025

  Segura, Rosa L ^a   Águila Arcos, Sandra ^a   Ugarte Uribe, Begoña ^a   Vecino, Ana J ^a   De La Cruz, Fernando ^b   Goñi, Félix M ^a   Alkorta, Itziar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial conjugation; Conjugative plasmid; Coupling protein; Type IV secretion system; VirB10 like proteins

Indexed keywords

COUPLING PROTEIN TYPE IV; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TRWB; PROTEIN TRWE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB10 LIKE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; PROLINE RICH REGION; TRWB PROTEIN, E COLI; TYPE IV COUPLING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; Β-D-THIOGALACTOPYRANOSIDE; 2-KETO-3-DEOXYOCTONATE; BACTERIAL TWO-HYBRID; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM TRWE HOMOLOG; BTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONJUGATIVE PLASMID; COUPLING PROTEIN; DDM; DIMETHYL 3,3′-DITHIOBISPROPIONIMIDATE; DTBP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HRP; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IPTG; IR; KDO; METABOLISM; MUTATION; N-DODECYL-Β-D-MALTOSIDE; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PRR; T4CP; TMD; TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN; TRWE(BT); VIRB10-LIKE PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

Β-D-THIOGALACTOPYRANOSIDE; 2-KETO-3-DEOXYOCTONATE; BACTERIAL CONJUGATION; BACTERIAL TWO-HYBRID; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM TRWE HOMOLOG; BTH; CONJUGATIVE PLASMID; COUPLING PROTEIN; DDM; DIMETHYL 3,3′-DITHIOBISPROPIONIMIDATE; DTBP; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; HRP; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IPTG; IR; KDO; N-DODECYL-Β-D-MALTOSIDE; PROLINE RICH REGION; PRR; T4CP; T4SS; TMD; TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN; TRWE(BT); TYPE IV COUPLING PROTEIN; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; VIRB10-LIKE PROTEINS;

CELL MEMBRANE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84879203404     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.05.022     Document Type: Article

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