A carboxy-terminal processing protease gene is located immediately upstream of the invasion-associated locus from Bartonella bacilliformis

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1221-1233

  Mitchell, Samuel J ^a   Minnick, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autolysis; CtpA; ialAB; Stress response protease; Tsp

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BARTONELLACEAE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS; BARTONELLACEAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0030977452     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-4-1221     Document Type: Article

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