Mapping of the SecA signal peptide binding site and dimeric interface by using the substituted cysteine accessibility method

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 4709-4715

  Bhanu, Meera K ^a   Zhao, Ping ^a   Kendall, Debra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIMER; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SECA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84885459740     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00661-13     Document Type: Article

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