Detailed structural and assembly model of the type II secretion pilus from sparse data

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 13081-13086

  Campos, Manuel ^a,c   Nilges, Michaël ^b,d   Cisneros, David A ^a,c   Francetic, Olivera ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Unité de Bioinformatique Structurale   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Unité de Recherche Associée 2185   (France)

Author keywords

Cysteine cross linking; Molecular modeling; Pilus assembly; Protein secretion; Pseudopilus

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PILIN; PULLULANASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME RELEASE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYSTEINE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTANT PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

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

EID: 77955628595     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001703107     Document Type: Article

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