Coiled-coil regions play a role in the function of the Shigella flexneri O-antigen chain length regulator WzzpHS2

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1104-1116

  Purins, Leanne ^a   Bosch, Luisa Van Den ^a   Richardson, Vanessa ^a   Morona, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; PROTEIN WZZ; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE CONSTRUCT; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; O ANTIGENS; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 44349118006     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/014225-0     Document Type: Article

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