Unraveling the molecular basis of subunit specificity in P pilus assembly by mass spectrometry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 12873-12878

  Rose, Rebecca J ^a   Verger, Denis ^b   Daviter, Tina ^b   Remaut, Han ^b   Paci, Emanuele ^a   Waksman, Gabriel ^a   Ashcroft, Alison E ^a   Radford, Sheena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donor strand exchange; Electrospray ionization; Noncovalent protein complexes; Uropathogenic bacteria

Indexed keywords

PILIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DONOR STRAND EXCHANGE; ELECTROSPRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 51349128736     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802177105     Document Type: Article

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