Functional features of TonB energy transduction systems of acinetobacter baumannii

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3382-3394

  Zimbler, Daniel L ^a   Arivett, Brock A ^a   Beckett, Amber C ^a   Menke, Sharon M ^a   Actis, Luis A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; PROTEIN TONB; SPACER DNA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; IRON CHELATION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OUTER MEMBRANE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 84884270590     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00540-13     Document Type: Article

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