Biochemical and localization analyses of putative type III secretion translocator proteins CopB and CopB2 of Chlamydia trachomatis reveal significant distinctions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3036-3045

  Chellas Gery B ^a   Wolf, K ^a   Tisoncik, J ^b   Hackstadt, T ^c   Fields, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPB PROTEIN; COPB2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 79961114651     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00159-11     Document Type: Article

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