Structural and mechanistic insights into prokaryotic energy-coupling factor transporters

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 79-87

  Slotboom, Dirk J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ENERGY COUPLING FACTOR TRANSPORTER; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROLYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HYDROLYSIS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892670970     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3175     Document Type: Article

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