Structural Insight into the Clostridium difficile Ethanolamine Utilisation Microcompartment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Pitts, Alison C ^a   Tuck, Laura R ^a   Faulds Pain, Alexandra ^b   Lewis, Richard J ^a   Marles Wright, Jon ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; ETHANOLAMINE; EUT PROTEIN; MICROCOMPARTMENT SHELL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEIN CD1908; PROTEIN CD1918; PROTEIN CD1925; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENSION GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; INTESTINE FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ETHANOLAMINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE 630; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84868087161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048360     Document Type: Article

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