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Mutational analysis of the large periplasmic loop 7-8 of the putrescine transporter PotE in Escherichia coli.
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology - 1 Feb 2004
Minchin Rodney F, McCoubrie Joanne E
Abstract excerpt
The PotE protein is a putrescine-ornithine antiporter found in many gram-negative bacteria. It is a member of the APA family of transporters and has 12 predicted alpha-helical transmembrane spanning segments (TMS). While the substrate binding site has previously been mapped to a region near the surface of the cytoplasmic lipid layer, no structural feature within the periplasmic domains of PotE have been shown to...
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