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Alignment of the protein substrate hairpin along the SecA two-helix finger primes protein transport in Escherichia coli
Qi Zhang, Sudipta Lahiri, Tithi Banerjee, Zhongmou Sun, Donald Oliver, and View ORCID ProfileIshita Mukerji
PNAS August 29, 2017 114 (35) 9343-9348; first published August 10, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1702201114
Qi Zhang
aMolecular Biophysics Program, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
Sudipta Lahiri
aMolecular Biophysics Program, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
Tithi Banerjee
aMolecular Biophysics Program, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
Zhongmou Sun
aMolecular Biophysics Program, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
Donald Oliver
aMolecular Biophysics Program, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
Ishita Mukerji
aMolecular Biophysics Program, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
Edited by Linda L. Randall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, and approved July 11, 2017 (received for review February 8, 2017)

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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: imukerji{at}wesleyan.edu.
Author contributions: Q.Z., D.O., and I.M. designed research; Q.Z., S.L., T.B., and Z.S. performed research; Q.Z. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; Q.Z., S.L., D.O., and I.M. analyzed data; and Q.Z., S.L., D.O., and I.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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SecA two-helix finger primes protein transport
Qi Zhang, Sudipta Lahiri, Tithi Banerjee, Zhongmou Sun, Donald Oliver, Ishita Mukerji
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2017, 114 (35) 9343-9348; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702201114
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