Mutational analyses reveal overall topology and functional regions of NilB, a bacterial outer membrane protein required for host association in a model of animal-microbe mutualism

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1763-1776

  Bhasin, Archna ^a   Chaston, John M ^b   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^b  

^a VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NILB PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MICROBE MUTUALISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INDEL MUTATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; SYMBIOSIS; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; INTESTINES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHABDITIDA; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 84860346170     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06711-11     Document Type: Article

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