The usher N terminus is the initial targeting site for chaperone-subunit complexes and participates in subsequent pilus biogenesis events

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 5321-5331

  Ng, Tony W ^a   Akman, Leyla ^a   Osisami, Mary ^a   Thanassi, David G ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CHAPERONE; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; FIMD PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PAPC PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USHER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BACTERIUM PILUS ASSEMBLY; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CELL SECRETION; CHAPERONE USHER PATHWAY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; P PILUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TYPE 1 PILUS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PORINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3843050179     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.16.5321-5331.2004     Document Type: Article

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