Export requirements of pneumolysin in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3651-3660

  Price, Katherine E ^a,b   Greene, Neil G ^a   Camilli, Andrew ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOLYSIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84864020016     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00114-12     Document Type: Article

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