The Myxococcus xanthus spore cuticula protein C is a fragment of FibA, an extracellular metalloprotease produced exclusively in aggregated cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Bongsoo ^a,c   Mann, Petra ^a   Grover, Vidhi ^a   Treuner Lange, Anke ^a,b   Kahnt, Jörg ^a   Higgs, Penelope I ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN FIBA; PROTEIN S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; FIBA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN C; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 83155164606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028968     Document Type: Article

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