Bacterial chitinases and chitin-binding proteins as virulence factors

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 5, 2013, Pages 833-847

  Frederiksen, Rikki F ^a   Paspaliari, Dafni K ^a   Larsen, Tanja ^a   Storgaard, Birgit G ^a,b   Larsen, Marianne H ^a   Ingmer, Hanne ^a   Palcic, Monica M ^b   Leisner, Jørgen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHITIN; CHITIN BINDING PROTEIN; CHITINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HYDROLYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84876887949     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051839-0     Document Type: Review

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