New secreted toxins and immunity proteins encoded within the type VI secretion system gene cluster of Serratia marcescens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 921-936

  English, Grant ^a   Trunk, Katharina ^a   Rao, Vincenzo A ^a   Srikannathasan, Velupillai ^a   Hunter, William N ^a   Coulthurst, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; RAP PROTEIN; RAP1B PROTEIN; RAP2B PROTEIN; SSP1 PROTEIN; SSP2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84871786739     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12028     Document Type: Article

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