Conservation of structure and protein-protein interactions mediated by the secreted mycobacterial proteins EsxA, EsxB, and EspA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 326-335

  Callahan, Brian ^a   Nguyen, Kiet ^a,e   Collins, Alissa ^a   Valdes, Kayla ^a   Caplow, Michael ^c   Crossman, David K ^b   Steyn, Adrie J C ^d   Eisele, Leslie ^a   Derbyshire, Keith M ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HETERODIMER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN ESPB; PROTEIN ESXA; PROTEIN ESXB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; BIOPHYSICS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 73849147588     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01032-09     Document Type: Article

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