Omptin proteins: An expanding family of outer membrane proteases in Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae (Review)

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 395-406

  Hritonenko, Victoria ^a   Stathopoulos, Christos ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

barrel; Aspartate protease; Enterobacteriaceae; Gram negative bacteria; OmpT; Outer membrane protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 34548067653     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687680701443822     Document Type: Review

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