Secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria: Structural and mechanistic insights

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 343-359

  Costa, Tiago R D ^a   Felisberto Rodrigues, Catarina ^a   Meir, Amit ^a   Prevost, Marie S ^a   Redzej, Adam ^a   Trokter, Martina ^a   Waksman, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CURLI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHAPERONE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; TYPE I SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE V SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL MEMBRANE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84929314375     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3456     Document Type: Review

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