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. 2009 Oct;5(10):e1000507.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000507. Epub 2009 Oct 30.

Systematic genetic nomenclature for type VII secretion systems

Wilbert Bitter  1 , Edith N G Houben, Daria Bottai, Priscille Brodin, Eric J Brown, Jeffery S Cox, Keith Derbyshire, Sarah M Fortune, Lian-Yong Gao, Jun Liu, Nicolaas C Gey van Pittius, Alexander S Pym, Eric J Rubin, David R Sherman, Stewart T Cole, Roland Brosch
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Systematic genetic nomenclature for type VII secretion systems

Wilbert Bitter et al. PLoS Pathog. 2009 Oct.
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Genetic organization of the 5 ESX loci and the espA operon in M. tuberculosis H37Rv with the proposed nomenclature and predicted cellular localization of the conserved ESX gene products and their interactions.
(A) Genetic organization. (B) Model. The abbreviation ecc stands for esx conserved component, whereas esp stands for ESX-1 secretion-associated proteins. The topology of the different proteins in the cytoplasmic membrane shown in (B) refers to the ESX-1 cluster and is based on predictions made using the MEMSAT3 algorithm . Note that the channel drawn in the outer membrane of our model refers to a hypothetical pore, whose existence has not been experimentally demonstrated.
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