Unusual genetic organization of a functional type I protein secretion system in Neisseria meningitidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5554-5567

  Wooldridge, Karl G ^a,b   Kizil, Murat ^a,c   Wells, Damien B ^a   Ala'Aldeen, Dlawer A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FRPC; PROTEIN HLYB; PROTEIN HLYD; PROTEIN RTX; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CISTRON; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 23944505577     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.9.5554-5567.2005     Document Type: Article

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