Intramolecular interactions between the protease and structural domains are important for the functions of serine protease autotransporters

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3335-3345

  Tsang, Casey ^a   Malik, Huma ^a   Nassman, Deana ^a   Huang, Antony ^a   Tariq, Fayha ^a   Oelschlaeger, Peter ^a   Stathopoulos, Christos ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; SCLEROPROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE AUTOTRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADHESIN; MUCIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; TSH PROTEIN, E COLI; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SECRETION;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIBRONECTINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUCINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SERINE PROTEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77955287612     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00129-10     Document Type: Article

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