Genetically Engineered Frameshifted YopN-TyeA Chimeras Influence Type III Secretion System Function in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

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Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Amer, Ayad A A ^a   Costa, Tiago R D ^a,b   Farag, Salah I ^a   Avican, Ummehan ^a   Forsberg, Åke ^a   Francis, Matthew S ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TYEA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOPN PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CELL ASSAY; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YOPN GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84884871476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077767     Document Type: Article

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