Type III Secretion: Building and Operating a Remarkable Nanomachine

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 175-189

  Portaliou, Athina G ^a,b,c   Tsolis, Konstantinos C ^a,b,c   Loos, Maria S ^a,b   Zorzini, Valentina ^a   Economou, Anastassios ^a,b,c  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chaperones; Energy requirements; Injectisome assembly; Secretion regulation; Type III secretion (T3S); Type III secretion system (T3SS)

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE;

COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENERAL DEVICE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOMACHINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84959178728     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.09.005     Document Type: Review

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