MscS (TC 1.A.23) family

Family members in B. subtilis

• YfkC
• YhdY
• YkuT

Important publications

Ian R Booth
Bacterial mechanosensitive channels: progress towards an understanding of their roles in cell physiology.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2014, 18(100);16-22
[PubMed:24607989] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ian R Booth, Paul Blount
The MscS and MscL families of mechanosensitive channels act as microbial emergency release valves.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(18);4802-9
[PubMed:22685280] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

James H Naismith, Ian R Booth
Bacterial mechanosensitive channels--MscS: evolution's solution to creating sensitivity in function.
Annu Rev Biophys: 2012, 41;157-77
[PubMed:22404681] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Paul G Wahome, Ann E Cowan, Barbara Setlow, Peter Setlow
Levels and localization of mechanosensitive channel proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
Arch Microbiol: 2009, 191(5);403-14
[PubMed:19252899] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Tamara Hoffmann, Clara Boiangiu, Susanne Moses, Erhard Bremer
Responses of Bacillus subtilis to hypotonic challenges: physiological contributions of mechanosensitive channels to cellular survival.
Appl Environ Microbiol: 2008, 74(8);2454-60
[PubMed:18310427] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Paul G Wahome, Peter Setlow
Growth, osmotic downshock resistance and differentiation of Bacillus subtilis strains lacking mechanosensitive channels.
Arch Microbiol: 2008, 189(1);49-58
[PubMed:17665170] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ian R Booth, Michelle D Edwards, Susan Black, Ulrike Schumann, Samantha Miller
Mechanosensitive channels in bacteria: signs of closure?
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2007, 5(6);431-40
[PubMed:17505523] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christopher D Pivetti, Ming-Ren Yen, Samantha Miller, Wolfgang Busch, Yi-Hsiung Tseng, Ian R Booth, Milton H Saier
Two families of mechanosensitive channel proteins.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2003, 67(1);66-85, table of contents
[PubMed:12626684] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)