Quantitative proteomics reveals metabolic and pathogenic properties of Chlamydia trachomatis developmental forms

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1185-1203

  Saka, Hector A ^a   Thompson, J Will ^b   Chen, Yi Shan ^a   Kumar, Yadunanda ^a,c   Dubois, Laura G ^b   Moseley, M Arthur ^b   Valdivia, Raphael H ^a  

^a Microbiology and Center for Microbial Pathogenesis   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOLYSIS; INFECTIOUS ELEMENTARY BODY; NONHUMAN; NONINFECTIOUS RETICULATE BODY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEOME; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 82155175628     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07877.x     Document Type: Article

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