A putative twin-arginine translocation pathway in Legionella pneumophila

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 317, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 654-661

  De Buck, Emmy ^a   Lebeau, Ilya ^a   Maes, Liesbeth ^a   Geukens, Nick ^a   Meyen, Eef ^a   Van Mellaert, Lieve ^a   Anné, Jozef ^a   Lammertyn, Elke ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Expression tat genes; Legionella pneumophila; Tat secretion; Tat substrates

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN A; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN B; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CISTRON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 1842583054     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.03.091     Document Type: Article

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