Processing of the AIDA-I precursor: Removal of AIDA(c) and evidence for the outer membrane anchoring as a β-barrel structure

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-42

  Suhr, Martin ^a   Benz, Inga ^a   Schmidt, M Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHIGELLA;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEISSERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0029846536     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02653.x     Document Type: Article

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