Recent progress and future directions in studies of the main terminal branch of the general secretory pathway in Gram-negative bacteria - A review

Gene

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-19

  Pugsley, Anthony P ^a   Francetic, Olivera ^a   Possot, Odile M ^a   Sauvonnet, Nathalie ^a   Hardie, Kim R ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chaperone; Multimeric protein complexes; Outer membrane; Protein secretion; Pullulanase; Secretion signal; Type IV pilins

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL SECRETION; CHROMOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030976146     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00803-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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