Chaperone-subunit-usher interactions required for donor strand exchange during bacterial pilus assembly

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2723-2730

  Barnhart, Michelle M ^a   Sauer, Frederic G ^a   Pinkner, Jerome S ^a   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037407701     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.9.2723-2730.2003     Document Type: Article

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