Structure and function of bacterial outer membrane proteins: Barrels in a nutshell

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 239-253

  Koebnik, Ralf ^a,b   Locher, Kaspar P ^a,c   Van Gelder, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HYDROLASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PORINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033942874     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01983.x     Document Type: Review

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