Bacterial outer membrane ushers contain distinct targeting and assembly domains for pilus biogenesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 6260-6269

  Thanassi, David G ^a   Stathopoulos, Christos ^a   Dodson, Karen ^a   Geiger, Dominik ^a   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EPITOPE MAPPING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036842083     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.22.6260-6269.2002     Document Type: Article

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