Vibrio cholerae El Tor TcpA crystal structure and mechanism for pilus-mediated microcolony formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 755-770

  Lim, Mindy S ^a   Ng, Dixon ^a   Zong, Zusheng ^a   Arvai, Andrew S ^b,c   Taylor, Ronald K ^d   Tainer, John A ^b,c   Craig, Lisa ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EL TOR TCPA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; TCPA PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77954843122     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07244.x     Document Type: Article

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