High Levels of DegU-P Activate an Esat-6-Like Secretion System in Bacillus subtilis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Baptista, Catarina ^a   Barreto, Hugo Condessa ^a   São José, Carlos ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; PROTEIN DEGU; PROTEIN YUKE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGU GENE; DIMERIZATION; ESS GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; YUKE GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EUKARYOTA; FIRMICUTES; OCTODON DEGUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84879800824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067840     Document Type: Article

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