Multimers of the precursor of a type IV pilin-like component of the general secretory pathway are unrelated to pili

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1235-1245

  Pugsley, Anthony P ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM PILUS; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; KLEBSIELLA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA;

EID: 0029899207     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02643.x     Document Type: Article

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