A translocator-specific export signal establishes the translocator-effector secretion hierarchy that is important for type III secretion system function

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1464-1481

  Tomalka, Amanda G ^a   Stopford, Charles M ^a,b   Lee, Pei Chung ^a   Rietsch, Arne ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; PCRH PROTEIN; POPD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84871018385     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12069     Document Type: Article

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