The chaperone/usher pathway: A major terminal branch of the general secretory pathway

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 223-231

  Thanassi, David G ^a   Saulino, Evan T ^a   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEGIBACTERIA;

CHAPERONE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032035356     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(98)80015-5     Document Type: Article

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