| ID | 100018 |
| Property |
Average diameter of ave. protein
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli
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| Value |
5
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| Units |
nm
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| Reference |
table link
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| Primary Source |
Additional ref - Statistically enhanced promiscuity of structurally correlated patterns D. B. Lukatsky* and E. I. Shakhnovich, Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Feb77(2 Pt 1):020901
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| Primary Source PubMed ID |
18351980
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| Comments |
A list of primary sources is given in the reference. Additional ref gives value of 2 nm. Lactose permease diameter is 4nm (bion ). General size of proteins in other sources 4-6 nm. Thus, a range of 2-6 nm for an average protein diameter.
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| Entered By |
Ron Milo, Paul Jorgensen, Mike Springer
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| Date Added |
Apr 25, 2008 10:48 AM
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| Date Edited |
Feb 27, 2009 10:33 AM
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| Version |
1
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| Permalink |
http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu//bionumber.aspx?id=100018&ver=1
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