Identification and characterization of a Streptococcus pyogenes ABC transporter with multiple specificity for metal cations

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 596-606

  Janulczyk, Robert ^a   Pallon, Jan ^b   Björck, Lars ^a  

^a Section for Molecular Signaling   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CATION; COPPER ION; FERRIC ION; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; METAL ION; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ZINC ION;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATION TRANSPORT; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0032746814     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01626.x     Document Type: Article

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