Role of the twin-arginine translocation pathway in Staphylococcus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5921-5929

  Biswas, Lalitha ^a   Biswas, Raja ^a   Nerz, Christiane ^a   Ohlsen, Knut ^b   Schlag, Martin ^a   Schäfer, Tina ^b   Lamkemeyer, Tobias ^a   Ziebandt, Anne Kathrin ^a   Hantke, Klaus ^a   Rosenstein, Ralf ^a   Götz, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON; PEROXIDASE; PROLIPASE; PROTEIN A; PROTEIN FEPB; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IRON TRANSPORT; KIDNEY ABSCESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS;

EID: 70349086184     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00642-09     Document Type: Article

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