Mycobacterial PE_PGRS Proteins Contain Calcium-Binding Motifs with Parallel β-roll Folds

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 236-241

  Bachhawat, Nandita ^a   Singh, Balvinder ^b  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

calcium binding motif; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; parallel roll fold; PE PGRS; virulence factors

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MACROPHAGE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 38949193910     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(08)60010-8     Document Type: Article

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