A view to a kill: The bacterial type VI secretion system

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-21

  Ho, Brian T ^a   Dong, Tao G ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BACTERIOPHAGES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84892577859     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2013.11.008     Document Type: Review

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