Function of FlhB, a Membrane Protein Implicated in the Bacterial Flagellar Type III Secretion System

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Meshcheryakov, Vladimir A ^a   Barker, Clive S ^a   Kostyukova, Alla S ^b   Samatey, Fadel A ^a  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLHB PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLHB GENE; FUSION GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; FLAGELLA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880072941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068384     Document Type: Article

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