The TadV protein of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a novel aspartic acid prepilin peptidase required for maturation of the Flp1 pilin and TadE and TadF pseudopilins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6899-6914

  Tomich, Mladen ^a   Fine, Daniel H ^b   Figurski, David H ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; PEPTIDASE; PILIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLP1; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN TADE; PROTEIN TADF; PROTEIN TADV; PSEUDOPILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TAD GENE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33749345746     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00690-06     Document Type: Article

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