Structural alterations in a type IV pilus subunit protein result in concurrent defects in multicellular behaviour and adherence to host tissue

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 293-307

  Park, Hae Sun Moon ^a,d   Wolfgang, Matthew ^a,e   Van Putten, Jos P M ^b,f   Dorward, David ^b   Hayes, Stanley F ^b   Koomey, Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 0034768354     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02629.x     Document Type: Article

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