Using Weakly Conserved Motifs Hidden in Secretion Signals to Identify Type-III Effectors from Bacterial Pathogen Genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Dong, Xiaobao ^a   Zhang, Yong Jun ^b   Zhang, Ziding ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TYPE 3 EFFECTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84874234583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056632     Document Type: Article

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