Fimbrial biogenesis genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: pilW and pilX increase the similarity of type 4 fimbriae to the GSP protein-secretion systems and pilY1 encodes a gonococcal PilC homologue

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 161-173

  Alm, Richard A ^a,b   Hallinan, James P ^a   Watson, Alison A ^a   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0029797933     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02665.x     Document Type: Article

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