Polymerizing the fibre between bacteria and host cells: The biogenesis of functional amyloid fibres

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1413-1420

  Epstein, Elisabeth Ashman ^a   Chapman, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPLIN; HARPIN; MICROCIN E492; PROTEINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 45249090641     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01148.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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