Localization and assembly of proteins comprising the outer structures of the Bacillus anthracis spore

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1133-1145

  Giorno, Rebecca ^a,d   Mallozzi, Michael ^a   Bozue, Joel ^b   Moody, Krishna Sulayman ^b   Slack, Alex ^a   Qiu, Dengli ^c   Wang, Rong ^c   Friedlander, Arthur ^b   Welkos, Susan ^b   Driks, Adam ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN EXSFA; PROTEIN EXSFB; PROTEIN IUNH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BCLA PROTEIN, BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANTHRAX; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL FRACTIONATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 65649093349     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.023333-0     Document Type: Article

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