Archaeal type IV pilus-like structures-evolutionarily conserved prokaryotic surface organelles

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-363

  Pohlschroder, Mecky ^a   Ghosh, Abhrajyoti ^b   Tripepi, Manuela ^a   Albers, Sonja Verena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; ORGANELLES;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79958816876     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.03.002     Document Type: Review

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