Structure-function relationships of the competence lipoprotein ComL and SSB in meningococcal transformation

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1329-1342

  Benam, Afsaneh V ^a   Lång, Emma ^a,b   Alfsnes, Kristian ^a,b   Fleckenstein, Burkhard ^a,b   Rowe, Alexander D ^b   Hovland, Eirik ^a   Ambur, Herman ^a,b   Frye, Stephan A ^a,b   Tønjum, Tone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN COML; MAGNESIUM ION; SECRETIN PILQ; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SSB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BINDING SITE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 79955750350     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.046896-0     Document Type: Article

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