Diversity, biogenesis and function of microbial amyloids

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 66-73

  Blanco, Luz P ^a   Evans, Margery L ^a   Smith, Daniel R ^a   Badtke, Matthew P ^a   Chapman, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMYLOID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHAPLIN PROTEIN; CSGA PROTEIN; CSGB PROTEIN; CSGC PROTEIN; CSGE PROTEIN; CSGG PROTEIN; CURLI PROTEIN; DAL5 PROTEIN; FERRITIN; GLN3 PROTEIN; HARPIN; HPAG PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBIN; MICROBIAL AMYLOID; MICROCIN E492; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN; SUP35 PROTEIN; SWI1 PROTEIN; TASA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL HYPHAE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BETA SHEET; BIOFILM; BIOFILM FORMATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL SURFACE; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HYDROPHOBICITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REP1 GENE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THRUSH; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMYLOID; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84856671147     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.11.005     Document Type: Review

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