Identification of critical amino acid residues in the plague biofilm Hms proteins

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3399-3410

  Forman, Stanislav ^a   Bobrov, Alexander G ^a   Kirillina, Olga ^a   Craig, Susannah K ^a   Abney, Jennifer ^a   Fetherston, Jacqueline D ^a   Perry, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HMS; PROTEIN HMSF; PROTEIN HMSH; PROTEIN HMSR; PROTEIN HMSS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEMIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PLAGUE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 33750942824     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29224-0     Document Type: Article

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