Type-4 pilus-structure: Outside to inside and top to bottom - A minireview

Gene

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 165-169

  Forest, Katrina T ^a   Tainer, John A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber; Modeling; Pilin; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIUM PILUS; BETA CHAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0031006047     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00008-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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