Structure and assembly of the pseudopilin PulG

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 647-664

  Köhler, Rolf ^a   Schäfer, Karsten ^b   Müller, Shirley ^c   Vignon, Guillaume ^a   Diederichs, Kay ^b   Philippsen, Ansgar ^c   Ringler, Philippe ^c   Pugsley, Anthony P ^a   Engel, Andreas ^c   Welte, Wolfram ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PSEUDOPILIN PULG; PULLULANASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 7644237002     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04307.x     Document Type: Article

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