Identification of major and minor chaperone proteins involved in the export of 987P fimbriae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3426-3433

  Edwards, Robert A ^a   Cao, Jiancheng ^a,b   Schifferli, Dieter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CHAPERONE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029888256     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.12.3426-3433.1996     Document Type: Article

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