The type III secretion system tip complex and translocon

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1085-1095

  Mueller, C A ^a   Broz, P ^a   Cornelis, G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN LCRV; PROTEIN PCRV; PROTEIN POPB; PROTEIN POPD; PROTEIN YOPB; PROTEIN YOPD; TRANSLOCON;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CYTOPLASM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOMONAS; SHORT SURVEY; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 43449122166     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06237.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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