Sortases and pilin elements involved in pilus assemly of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 251-261

  Ton That, Hung ^a   Marraffini, Luciano A ^a   Schneewind, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; PILIN; SORTASE;

ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CROSS LINKING; E BOX ELEMENT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SORTASE A GENE; SORTASE B GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 3142559796     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04117.x     Document Type: Article

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