Structural insights into the molecular organization of the S-layer from Clostridium difficile

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1308-1322

  Fagan, Robert P ^b   Albesa Jové, David ^b   Qazi, Omar ^a,b   Svergun, Dmitri I ^c,d   Brown, Katherine A ^b   Fairweather, Neil F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; S LAYER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL SURFACE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPLEX FORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 60649099858     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06603.x     Document Type: Article

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