Surface proteins of gram-positive bacteria and how they get there

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 397-423

  Scott, June R ^a   Barnett, Timothy C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Attachment to cell wall; Surface transport

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELLULOSOME; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN LYSM; PROTEIN PRSA; PROTEIN SECA; PROTEIN SECB; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; SORTASE; TEICHOIC ACID; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL SURFACE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33750319466     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.60.080805.142256     Document Type: Review

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