A hybrid two-component system of Tannerella forsythia affects autoaggregation and post-translational modification of surface proteins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 318, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-196

  Niwa, Daisuke ^a   Nishikawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoaggregation; Glycosyltransferase; S layer protein; Tannerella forsythia; Two component system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEOME;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDETES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

FORSYTHIA; NEGIBACTERIA; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS;

EID: 79953766370     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02256.x     Document Type: Review

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