Insight into the core and variant exoproteomes of Listeria monocytogenes species by comparative subproteomic analysis

Proteomics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3136-3155

  Dumas, Emilie ^a   Desvaux, Mickaël ^a   Chambon, Christophe ^a   Hébraud, Michel ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bioinformatic analysis; Extracellular proteome; Listeria monocytogenes; MALDI TOF MS

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOPROTEOME; HYDROLASE; LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDASE; PROTEOME; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; LIPOPROTEINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 67649229164     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800765     Document Type: Article

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