The bacterial twin-arginine translocation pathway

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 373-395

  Lee, Philip A ^a,b   Tullman Ercek, Danielle ^a,b   Georgiou, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Pathogenesis; Protein transport; Tat; Translocase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SEC; PROTEIN TATA; PROTEIN TATB; PROTEIN TATC; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE I; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIA GENE; AMIC GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; THYLAKOID; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION PATHWAY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUALITY CONTROL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750381048     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.60.080805.142212     Document Type: Review

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