The various and varying roles of specific chaperones in type III secretion systems

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-14

  Parsot, Claude ^a   Hamiaux, Cyril ^b   Page, Anne Laure ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ENERGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345633461     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(02)00002-4     Document Type: Review

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