The final step in the phage infection cycle: The Rz and Rz1 lysis proteins link the inner and outer membranes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-351

  Berry, Joel ^a   Summer, Elizabeth J ^a   Struck, Douglas K ^a   Young, Ryland ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN RZ; PROTEIN RZ1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DEGRADATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CELL MEMBRANE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 52649112247     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06408.x     Document Type: Article

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