Are bacterial 'autotransporters' really transporters?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 441-447

  Bernstein, Harris D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 35648988968     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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