Type VII secretion: A highly versatile secretion system

Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 357-384

  Ates, Louis S ^a   Houben, Edith N G ^b   Bitter, Wilbert ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial secretion system; Crystal structure; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Proteins form; Type VII secretion system

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053105808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1128/9781555819286.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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