Structural characterization of outer membrane components of the type IV Pili system in pathogenic Neisseria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jain, Samta ^a,c   Mościcka, Katarzyna B ^a   Bos, Martine P ^b   Pachulec, Emilia ^a   Stuart, Marc C A ^a   Keegstra, Wilko ^a   Boekema, Egbert J ^a   van der Does, Chris ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PILQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PILE PROTEIN, NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PILF PROTEIN, NEISSERIA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; FIMBRIA; NEISSERIA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 79551629041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016624     Document Type: Article

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