Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion: An mRNA signal that couples translation and secretion of YopQ

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1139-1148

  Anderson, Deborah M ^a   Schneewind, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA TRANSLATION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CODON, INITIATOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0033003131     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01254.x     Document Type: Article

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