Acidianus, Sulfolobus and Metallosphaera surface layers: Structure, composition and gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-72

  Veith, Andreas ^a   Klingl, Andreas ^b   Zolghadr, Behnam ^c   Lauber, Karin ^a   Mentele, Reinhard ^d   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^d   Rachel, Reinhard ^b   Albers, Sonja Verena ^c   Kletzin, Arnulf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SLAA; PROTEIN SLAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDIANUS; ACIDIANUS AMBIVALENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SLAAB GENE; STAPHYLOTHERMUS MARINUS; SULFOLOBALES; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFOLOBALES; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC;

ACIDIANUS; ACIDIANUS AMBIVALENS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CRENARCHAEOTA; METALLOSPHAERA; METALLOSPHAERA SEDULA; STAPHYLOTHERMUS MARINUS; SULFOLOBALES; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 67649438828     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06746.x     Document Type: Article

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