Clostridium taeniosporum spore ribbon-like appendage structure, composition and genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 629-643

  Walker, James R ^a   Gnanam, Annie J ^a   Blinkova, Alexandra L ^a   Hermandson, Mary Jo ^a,d   Karymov, Mikhail A ^b   Lyubchenko, Yuri L ^b   Graves, Paul R ^c,e   Haystead, Timothy A ^c   Linse, Klaus D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Dixie Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CLOSTRIDIUM TAENIOSPORUM; ENDOSPORE-FORMING RODS AND COCCI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

CLOSTRIDIUM;

EID: 33846198671     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05494.x     Document Type: Article

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