The substrate specificity of mitochondrial carriers: Mutagenesis revisited

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 149-159

  Monné, Magnus ^a,b   Palmieri, Ferdinando ^a   Kunji, Edmund R S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternating access model; Mitochondrial carriers; Substrate binding; Transport mechanism; Transport proteins

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883772978     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09687688.2012.737936     Document Type: Article

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