Escherichia coli tol-pal mutants form outer membrane vesicles

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 4872-4878

  Bernadac, Alain ^a   Gavioli, Marthe ^a   Lazzaroni, Jean Claude ^b   Raina, Satish ^c   Lloubès, Roland ^a  

^a CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE LIPID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PAL PROTEIN; PORIN; TOL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GOSSWEILERODENDRON BALSAMIFERUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031679259     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.18.4872-4878.1998     Document Type: Article

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