Identification of functional Tat signal sequences in Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6428-6438

  McDonough, Justin A ^a,b   McCann, Jessica R ^a   Tekippe, Erin McElvania ^a   Silverman, Jason S ^a,c   Rigel, Nathan W ^a   Braunstein, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; DIPEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL SURFACE; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION SYSTEM;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE C PHOSPHOLIPASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 52649121849     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00749-08     Document Type: Article

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