Type IV secretion machinery: Molecular architecture and function

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-28

  Chandran, Vidya ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pilus biogenesis; Structural biology; Substrate secretion; Type IV secretion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN VIRB10; PROTEIN VIRB11; PROTEIN VIRB2; PROTEIN VIRB3; PROTEIN VIRB5; PROTEIN VIRB6; PROTEIN VIRB7; PROTEIN VIRB8; PROTEIN VIRB9; PROTEIN VIRD4; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BRUCELLA SUIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SECRETORY PATHWAY; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84873184809     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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