Live cell imaging shows reversible assembly of the TatA component of the twin-arginine protein transport system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages

  Alcock, Felicity ^a   Baker, Matthew A B ^b   Greene, Nicholas P ^a,d   Palmer, Tracy ^c   Wallace, Mark I ^b,c   Berks, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN TATA; HYBRID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE;

EID: 84884317508     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306738110     Document Type: Article

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