Functional analysis of the Listeria monocytogenes secretion chaperone PrsA2 and its multiple contributions to bacterial virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1530-1548

  Alonzo Iii, Francis ^a   Xayarath, Bobbi ^a   Whisstock, James C ^b   Freitag, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; CHAPERONE; CYCLOPHILIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN PRSA1; PROTEIN PRSA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79958811002     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07665.x     Document Type: Article

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