Molecular dissection of bacterial nanowires

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Boesen, Thomas ^a   Nielsen, Lars Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; NANOWIRE; PILA PROTEIN; PILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIUM PILUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; FIMBRIA; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; PILA;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER;

EID: 84879580824     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00270-13     Document Type: Note

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