Tapping the nucleotide pool of the host: Novel nucleotide carrier proteins of Protochlamydia amoebophila

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1534-1545

  Haferkamp, Ilka ^a   Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^b   Wagner, Michael ^b   Neigel, Nadjeschka ^a   Horn, Matthias ^b   Neuhaus, H Ekkehard ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ISOPROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORTER; PROTON; RNA; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BINDING AFFINITY; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLAMYDIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33744500489     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05193.x     Document Type: Article

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