Emerging themes in SecA2-mediated protein export

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 779-789

  Feltcher, Meghan E ^a   Braunstein, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SECA; PROTEIN SECA2; SECY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROLYSIS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84867893593     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2874     Document Type: Review

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