Complementation of deletion mutations in a cloned functional cluster of Erwinia chrysanthemi out genes with Erwinia carotovora out homologues reveals OutC and OutD as candidate gatekeepers of species-specific secretion of proteins via the type II pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 175-190

  Lindeberg, Magdalen ^a,c   Salmond, George P C ^b   Collmer, Alan ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ERWINIA; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OPERON; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0029927929     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02499.x     Document Type: Article

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