A typhus group-specific protease defies reductive evolution in rickettsiae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7609-7613

  Ammerman, Nicole C ^a   Gillespie, Joseph J ^a,b   Neuwald, Andrew F ^a   Sobral, Bruno W ^b   Azad, Abdu F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTPROLINE CLEAVING ENZYME; PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TYPHUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RICKETTSIEAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

MURINAE; RICKETTSIACEAE; TYPHUS GROUP;

EID: 72449143283     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01077-09     Document Type: Article

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