Sortase activity is controlled by a flexible lid in the pilus biogenesis mechanism of Gram-positive pathogens

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 10549-10557

  Manzano, Clothilde ^a   Izoré, Thierry ^a   Job, Viviana ^a   Di Guilmi, Anne Marie ^a   Dessen, Andréa ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CATALYTIC TRIAD; GRAM-POSITIVE PATHOGENS; HUMAN PATHOGENS; PATHOGENIC SPECIES; PROTEIN FOLDS; SORTASE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE RECOGNITION; THERMAL SHIFT; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AMINES; CATALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

PATHOGENS;

PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; SORTASE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 70449442758     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901261y     Document Type: Article

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