Translocation failure in a type-4 pilin operon: rfb and tcpT mutants in Vibrio cholerae

Gene

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-77

  Iredell, Jon R ^a,b   Manning, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b QE2 Jubilee Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

ATPase; General secretory pathway; Protein export; rfb; Subunit translocation; TcpA; TcpT; Toxin coregulated pilus (TCP); Type 4 pilus assembly

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BINDING PROTEIN; LIPID A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

BACTERIUM PILUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MANNOSE; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; OPERON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE 569B;

EID: 0030992350     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00040-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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