Structure and function relationship of the autotransport and proteolytic activity of EspP from Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Brockmeyer, Jens ^a   Spelten, Sabrina ^b   Kuczius, Thorsten ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ELASTASE; EXTRACELLULAR SERINE PROTEASE PLASMID ENCODED PROTEIN; HISTAMINE; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ESPP PROTEIN, E COLI; SHIGA TOXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSPOSON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SHIGA TOXIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 67749127557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006100     Document Type: Article

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