Identification and Characterization of a Novel Porin Family Highlights a Major Difference in the Outer Membrane of Chlamydial Symbionts and Pathogens

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Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Aistleitner, Karin ^a   Heinz, Christian ^a   Hörmann, Alexandra ^a   Heinz, Eva ^a   Montanaro, Jacqueline ^a   Schulz, Frederik ^a   Maier, Elke ^b   Pichler, Peter ^c   Benz, Roland ^b,d   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN S; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN T; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN U; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN V; PORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDIA; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LIPID BILAYER; NONHUMAN; POMS GENE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; SYMBIONT;

AMOEBA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID BILAYERS; PORINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84873158435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055010     Document Type: Article

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