When two turn into one: Evolution of membrane transporters from half modules

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 395, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1379-1388

  Keller, Rebecca ^c   Ziegler, Christine ^a,b   Schneider, Dirk ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternating access; DedA; LeuT; Major facilitator super (MFS); Structure; Sugars Will be Eventually Exported Transporters (SWEET); Transporter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CRCB PROTEIN; DEDA PROTEIN; EMRE PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; SUGARS WILL BE EVENTUALLY EXPORTED TRANSPORTER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84926471531     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2014-0224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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