A bioinformatic strategy for the detection, classification and analysis of bacterial autotransporters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Celik, Nermin ^a   Webb, Chaille T ^a   Leyton, Denisse L ^a   Holt, Kathryn E ^b   Heinz, Eva ^a   Gorrell, Rebecca ^a   Kwok, Terry ^a   Naderer, Thomas ^a   Strugnell, Richard A ^b   Speed, Terence P ^c   Teasdale, Rohan D ^d   Likić, Vladimir A ^e   Lithgow, Trevor ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUSOBACTERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLAMYDIALES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIA; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RALSTONIA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865048949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043245     Document Type: Article

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