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Mutations in the major gas vesicle protein GvpA and impacts on gas vesicle formation in Haloferax volcanii.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 2017
Knitsch Regine, Schneefeld Marie, Weitzel Kerstin, Pfeifer Felicitas
Abstract excerpt
Gas vesicles are proteinaceous, gas-filled nanostructures produced by some bacteria and archaea. The hydrophobic major structural protein GvpA forms the ribbed gas vesicle wall. An in-silico 3D-model of GvpA of the predicted coil-α1-β1-β2-α2-coil structure is available and implies that the two β-chains constitute the hydrophobic interior surface of the gas vesicle wall. To test the importance of individual amino...
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