Structural characterization of a type III secretion system filament protein in complex with its chaperone

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-81

  Yip, Calvin K ^a   Finlay, B Brett ^a   Strynadka, Natalie C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE STRUCTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 11444263137     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb879     Document Type: Article

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