Length control of the injectisome needle requires only one molecule of Yop secretion protein P (YscP)

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

Volumn 107, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 13860-13865

  Wagner, Stefanie ^a   Stenta, Marco ^b   Metzger, Lisa C ^a   Dal Peraro, Matteo ^b   Cornelis, Guy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Molecular ruler; Nanomachine; Stochastic modeling; Type III secretion; Yersinia

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN YOP SECRETION P; PROTEIN YSCP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; ALLELE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; YERSINIA;

YERSINIA;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; YERSINIA;

EID: 77956386626     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006985107     Document Type: Article

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