Wza: a new structural paradigm for outer membrane secretory proteins?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 96-100

  Collins, Richard F ^a   Derrick, Jeremy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PILQ; PROTEIN WZA; SECRETIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33847686275     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2007.01.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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