PE is a functional domain responsible for protein translocation and localization on mycobacterial cell wall

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1536-1547

  Cascioferro, Alessandro ^a   Delogu, Giovanni ^b   Colone, Marisa ^c   Sali, Michela ^b   Stringaro, Annarita ^c   Arancia, Giuseppe ^c   Fadda, Giovanni ^b   Palù, Giorgio ^a   Manganelli, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; EPITOPE; PROTEIN TAG; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL WALL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 36549015553     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06023.x     Document Type: Article

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