Bacterial glycosyltransferase toxins

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1752-1765

  Jank, Thomas ^a   Belyi, Yury ^a,b   Aktories, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b GAMALEYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; ELONGATION FACTOR 1A; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; RHO FACTOR; SETA PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YERSINIA RUCKERI; DRUG EFFECTS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84947976587     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12533     Document Type: Review

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