Role of the Escherichia coli Tat pathway in outer membrane integrity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1183-1193

  Ize, Bérengère ^a,b   Stanley, Nicola R ^a,c   Buchanan, Grant ^a   Palmer, Tracy ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIA PROTEIN; AMIC PROTEIN; AMIDASE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION; TWIN ARGININE TRANSPORT;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE;

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

EID: 0038460119     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03504.x     Document Type: Article

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