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The role of the periplasmic loop residue glutamine 65 for MscL mechanosensitivity.
European biophysics journal : EBJ - 1 Jul 2005
Tsai I-Jung, Liu Zhen-Wei, Rayment John, Norman Christel, McKinley Allan, Martinac Boris
Abstract excerpt
The periplasmic loop of MscL, the mechanosensitive channel of large conductance, acts as a spring resisting the opening of the channel. Recently, a high-throughput functional screening of a range of MscL structural mutants indicated that the substitution of residue glutamine (Q) 65 with arginine (R) or leucine (L) leads to a wild-type (WT)-like and a loss-of-function (LOF) phenotype, respectively. We used...
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