Mycoplasma pneumoniae Mpn133 is a cytotoxic nuclease with a glutamic acid-, lysine- and serine-rich region essential for binding and internalization but not enzymatic activity

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1821-1831

  Somarajan, Sudha R ^a   Kannan, Thirumalai R ^a   Baseman, Joel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; MPN133 ENZYME; NUCLEASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 78449283941     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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