ATP/ADP Translocases: A Common Feature of Obligate Intracellular Amoebal Symbionts Related to Chlamydiae and Rickettsiae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 683-691

  Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a   Linka, Nicole ^b   Collingro, Astrid ^a   Beier, Cora L ^c   Neuhaus, H Ekkehard ^b   Wagner, Michael ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCASE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RICKETTSIA; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARACHLAMYDIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 1642581500     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.3.683-691.2004     Document Type: Article

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