Type IV pili: paradoxes in form and function

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-277

  Craig, Lisa ^a   Li, Juliana ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PROTEINASE; SECRETIN;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BACTERIUM PILUS TYPE IV; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CYTOLOGY; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; ENZYME RELEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 41949117894     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.12.009     Document Type: Review

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