Computational analysis of candidate prion-like proteins in bacteria and their role

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Iglesias, Valentin ^a   de Groot, Natalia S ^a   Ventura, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Bacteria; Pathogenesis; Prion; Protein aggregation

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL INVASION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84946827128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01123     Document Type: Article

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