Genes for the major structural components of thermotogales species' togas revealed by proteomic and evolutionary analyses of OmpA and OmpB homologs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Petrus, Amanda K ^a   Swithers, Kristen S ^a   Ranjit, Chaman ^a   Wu, Si ^b   Brewer, Heather M ^b   Gogarten, J Peter ^a   Pasa Tolic, Ljiljana ^b   Noll, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; PORIN; PROTEIN OMPB; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROXYAPATITE CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OMPA1 GENE; OMPA2 GENE; OMPB GENE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; THERMOTOGALES; THERMOTOGALES MARITIMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DURAPATITE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 84863088405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040236     Document Type: Article

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