Widespread abundance of functional bacterial amyloid in mycolata and other gram-positive bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4101-4110

  Jordal, Peter Bruun ^a,b   Dueholm, Morten Simonsen ^a,b   Larsen, Poul ^b   Petersen, Steen Vang ^a   Enghild, Jan Johannes ^a   Christiansen, Gunna ^a   Højrup, Peter ^c   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^b   Otzen, Daniel Erik ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL SPECIES; CELL ENVELOPES; EXTRACELLULAR; EXTRACELLULAR FIBRILS; FIRMICUTES; GORDONIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE ORGANISMS; INTEGRAL PART; NOCARDIA; RICH STRUCTURE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

BACTERIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOPROTEINS; ION BEAMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA;

AMYLOID; ANTIBODY; FUBA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; PROTEIN; SPORE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHILUS; FIMBRIA; FIRMICUTES; FUNGUS SPORE; GEODERMATOPHILUS OBSCURUS; GORDONIA AMARAE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOLATA; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; SAPONIFICATION; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMYLOID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GEODERMATOPHILUS OBSCURUS; GORDONIA AMARAE; NOCARDIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 67149111635     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02107-08     Document Type: Article

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