Identification of surprisingly diverse type IV Pili, across a broad range of gram-positive bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Imam, Saheed ^a,b   Chen, Zhongqiang ^a,c   Roos, David S ^a   Pohlschröder, Mechthild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLALES; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM PILUS; CLADISTICS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COM GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LACTOBACILLALES; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PILB GENE; PILC GENE; PREDICTION; SPIROCHETE; TAD GENE; TYPE IV PILUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 83755174215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028919     Document Type: Article

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