Semiquantitative analysis of clinical heat stress in Clostridium difficile strain 630 using a GeLC/MS workflow with emPAI quantitatio

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Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Ternan, Nigel G ^a   Jain, Shailesh ^a   Graham, Robert L J ^b   McMullan, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BODY MOVEMENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPONENTIALLY MODIFIED PROTEIN ABUNDANCE INDEX; FLAGELLUM; HEAT STRESS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; DOWN REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UPREGULATION; WORKFLOW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DOWN-REGULATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UP-REGULATION; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84896095210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088960     Document Type: Article

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