Yersinia enterocolitica type III secretion chaperone SycH. Recombinant expression, purification, characterisation, and crystallisation

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-247

  Neumayer, Wibke ^a   Groll, Michael ^a   Lehmann, Verena ^a,b   Antoneka, Uladzimir ^a   Kähler, Susanne ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a   Wilharm, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chaperone; SycH; TTSS; Type three secretion; Yersinia

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 2642557241     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.02.017     Document Type: Article

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