The bacterial intimins and invasins: A large and novel family of secreted proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Tsai, Jennifer C ^a   Yen, Ming Ren ^a   Castillo, Rostislav ^a   Leyton, Denisse L ^b   Henderson, Ian R ^b   Saier, Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTIMIN; INVASIN; ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOGENESIS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROBI; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HYDROPHILICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SECRETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROBI; CYANOBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 78650987801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014403     Document Type: Article

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