Polar localization of the autotransporter family of large bacterial virulence proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4841-4850

  Jain, Sumita ^a   Van Ulsen, Peter ^b   Benz, Inga ^c   Schmidt, M Alexander ^c   Fernandez, Rachel ^d   Tommassen, Jan ^b   Goldberg, Marcia B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Zentrum fur Molekularbiologie der Entzundung ZMBE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ICSA; PROTEIN SEPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 33745474369     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00326-06     Document Type: Article

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