Toxins and secretion systems of Photorhabdus luminescens

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1250-1264

  Rodou, Athina ^a   Ankrah, Dennis O ^a   Stathopoulos, Christos ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial protein toxins; Gram negative bacteria; Photorhabdus luminescens; Secretion systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; PHOTORHABDUS VIRULENCE CASSETTE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MCF1; PROTEIN MCF2; PROTEIN PIRA; PROTEIN PIRB; PROTEIN TCA; PROTEIN TCB; PROTEIN TCC; PROTEIN TCD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BIOINFORMATICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TYPE I SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE V SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; HUMANS; PHOTORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 79952090357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2061250     Document Type: Article

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