A second prepilin peptidase gene in Escherichia coli K-12

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 763-775

  Francetić, Olivera ^a   Lory, Stephen ^b   Pugsley, Anthony P ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDASE; PILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031939762     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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