On the use of Legionella/Rickettsia chimeras to investigate the structure and regulation of Rickettsia effector RalF

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 98-104

  Folly Klan, Marcia ^a   Sancerne, Bastien ^a   Alix, Eric ^b   Roy, Craig R ^b   Cherfils, Jacqueline ^a   Campanacci, Valérie ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogens; Chimera; Guanine nucleotide exchange factor; Small GTPases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII RALF PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HYBRID PROTEIN; RALF PROTEIN, LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

EID: 84922715973     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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