Protein export through the bacterial Sec pathway

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 21-36

  Tsirigotaki, Alexandra ^a   De Geyter, Jozefien ^a   Šoštarić, Nikolina ^a   Economou, Anastassios ^a   Karamanou, Spyridoula ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SECA; PROTEIN SECB; PROTEIN SECYEG; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRIGGER FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SECA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SECYEG PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSLOCON;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; CELL MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEC TRANSLOCATION CHANNELS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84997207343     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.161     Document Type: Review

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