Exploitation of host polyubiquitination machinery through molecular mimicry by eukaryotic-like bacterial F-box effectors

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Price, Christopher T D ^a   Abu Kwaik, Yousef ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Ankb; Farnesylation; GALA; Legionella. Legionnaires; Ralstonia; SKP1; Virf

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855133900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2010.00122     Document Type: Review

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