Toxin on a stick: Modular CDI toxin delivery systems play roles in bacterial competition

Virulence

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Aoki, Stephanie K ^a   Poole, Stephen J ^a   Hayes, Christopher S ^a   Low, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial toxins; Autoimmunity; Contact dependent growth inhibition; Intercellular communication; Ribonuclease; Twopartner secretion

Indexed keywords

TOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; CHIMERA; CONTACT DEPENDENT GROWTH INHIBITION; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; YERSINIA PESTIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICKEYA DADANTII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84856074408     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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