TP0326, a Treponema pallidum β-barrel assembly machinery A (BamA) orthologue and rare outer membrane protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1496-1515

  Desrosiers, Daniel C ^a,e   Anand, Arvind ^a   Luthra, Amit ^a   Dunham Ems, Star M ^a   Ledoyt, Morgan ^a   Cummings, Michael A D ^b   Eshghi, Azad ^b   Cameron, Caroline E ^b   Cruz, Adriana R ^c   Salazar, Juan C ^c,d   Caimano, Melissa J ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^d Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAMA; PROTEIN TP0326; PROTEINASE K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RABBIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SPIROCHAETA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 79958843998     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07662.x     Document Type: Article

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