The Escherichia coli amidase AmiC is a periplasmic septal ring component exported via the twin-arginine transport pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1171-1182

  Bernhardt, Thomas G ^a   De Boer, Piet A J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIA PROTEIN; AMIB PROTEIN; AMIC PROTEIN; AMIDASE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL FRACTIONATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TWIN ARGININE TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

AMIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037783310     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03511.x     Document Type: Article

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