Outer membrane protein biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1679, 2015, Pages

  Rollauer, Sarah E ^a   Sooreshjani, Moloud A ^b   Noinaj, Nicholas ^b   Buchanan, Susan K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Insertase; Lateral gate; Outer membrane; Protein folding; barrel assembly machinery complex; barrel membrane protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEMBRANE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; VIRULENCE;

NEGIBACTERIA;

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84941730080     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0023     Document Type: Review

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