Structural and functional insights into the assembly of type 1 pili from Escherichia coli

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2284-2290

  Capitani, Guido ^a   Eidam, Oliv ^a   Glockshuber, Rudi ^b   Grütter, Markus G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Folding; Structural studies; Type 1 pili; Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE;

BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CATALYST; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33748145105     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.03.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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