Average diameter of ave. protein - Bacteria Escherichia coli

ID	100018
Property	Average diameter of ave. protein
Organism	Bacteria Escherichia coli
Value	5
Range
Units	nm
Reference	http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/CCDB/cgi-bin/STAT_NEW.cgi
Reference PubMed ID
Entered By	Ron Milo, Paul Jorgensen, Mike Springer
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
Primary Source PubMed ID	18351980
Measurement Method
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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.
Date Added	Apr 25, 2008 10:48 AM
Date Edited	Feb 27, 2009 10:33 AM