Primary structure and function of a cytotoxic outer-membrane protein (ComP) of Plesiomonas shigelloides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-16

  Tsugawa, Hitoshi ^a   Ogawa, Asako ^a   Takehara, Satomi ^a   Kimura, Mayumi ^a   Okawa, Yoshio ^a  

^a TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytotoxic outer membrane protein (ComP); Molecular cloning; Plesiomonas shigelloides; Structure

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; COMP GENE; DELETION MUTANT; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PLESIOMONAS SHIGELLOIDES;

EID: 40349106440     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01041.x     Document Type: Article

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