A complex composed of SycN and YscB functions as a specific chaperone for YopN in Yersinia pestis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 777-788

  Day, James B ^a   Plano, Gregory V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHAPERONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0031766236     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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