Diversity and subcellular distribution of archaeal secreted proteins

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Szabo, Zalan ^a   Pohlschroder, Mechthild ^b  

^a MicroDish BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Archaeosortase; Cell surface structures; Lipoprotein; Pili; Protein transport; Sec transport; Tat transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875766625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00207     Document Type: Article

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