The bacterial outer membrane β-barrel assembly machinery

Protein Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 751-768

  Kim, Kelly H ^a   Aulakh, Suraaj ^a   Paetzel, Mark ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

barrel assembly machinery; barrels; Outer membrane; Outer membrane proteins; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA BARREL ASSEMBLY MACHINERY COMPLEX; CHAPERONE; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN BAMA; PROTEIN BAMB; PROTEIN BAMC; PROTEIN BAMD; PROTEIN BAME; PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE I; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CHLOROPLAST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LIPID BILAYER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84861451226     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2069     Document Type: Review

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