Role of the periplasmic chaperones Skp, SurA, and DegQ in outer membrane protein biogenesis in Neisseria meningitidis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1612-1621

  Volokhina, Elena B ^a,b   Grijpstra, Jan ^a   Stork, Michiel ^a   Schilders, Ingrid ^a   Tommassen, Jan ^a   Bos, Martine P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN SKP; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHAPERONE; GENOMIC DNA; KANAMYCIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DEGP; PROTEIN DEGQ; PROTEIN SURA; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOGENESIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PORB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PORINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 79952789687     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00532-10     Document Type: Article

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