Spontaneous transmembrane helix insertion thermodynamically mimics translocon-guided insertion.

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Published in Nat Commun on September 10, 2014

Authors

Martin B Ulmschneider1, Jakob P Ulmschneider2, Nina Schiller3, B A Wallace4, Gunnar von Heijne3, Stephen H White5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Massachusetts 21218, USA.
2: Institute of Natural Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
3: 1] Center for Biomembrane Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden [2] Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-17177 Solna, Sweden.
4: Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK.
5: Department of Physiology &Biophysics and the Center for Biomembrane Systems, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4560, USA.

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