Chlamydia abortus YhbZ, a truncated Obg family GTPase, associates with the Escherichia coli large ribosomal subunit

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 200-206

  Polkinghorne, Adam ^a   Vaughan, Lloyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; GTPase; Obg; Ribosome; YhbZ

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN YHBZ; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA ABORTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LARGE RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, LARGE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA ABORTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79951576033     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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