Similar modes of polypeptide recognition by export chaperones in flagellar biosynthesis and type III secretion

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 789-793

  Evdokimov, Artem G ^a,b   Phan, Jason ^a   Tropea, Joseph E ^a   Routzahn, Karen M ^a   Peters III, Howard K ^a   Pokross, Matthew ^a,b   Waugh, David S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHAPERONE; FLAGELLIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOSOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SECRETION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0141618445     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb982     Document Type: Article

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