Article
The translocation of negatively charged residues across the membrane is driven by the electrochemical potential: evidence for an electrophoresis-like membrane transfer mechanism.
The EMBO journal - 1 Mar 1995
Cao G, Kuhn A, Dalbey R E
Abstract excerpt
The role of the membrane electrochemical potential in the translocation of acidic and basic residues across the membrane was investigated with the M13 procoat protein, which has a short periplasmic loop, and leader peptidase, which has an extended periplasmically located N-terminal tail. For both proteins we find that the membrane potential promotes membrane transfer only when negatively charged residues are...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino Acids
- Bacterial Proteins
- Capsid
- Capsid Proteins
- Carbonyl Cyanide m-Chlorophenyl Hydrazone
- Cell Membrane
- Electrochemistry
- Endopeptidases