Cloning of an Aeromonas hydrophila type IV pilus biogenesis gene cluster: Complementation of pilus assembly functions and characterization of a type IV leader peptidase/N-methyltransferase required for extracellular protein secretion

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 857-869

  Pepe, Cynthia M ^a   Eklund, Melvin W ^a   Strom, Mark S ^a  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDASE;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0030028262     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.431958.x     Document Type: Article

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