Conserved Hydrophobic Clusters on the Surface of the Caf1A Usher C-Terminal Domain Are Important for F1 Antigen Assembly

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 403, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-259

  Dubnovitsky, Anatoly P ^a   Duck, Zoe ^b   Kersley, Joanne E ^b   Härd, Torleif ^a   MacIntyre, Sheila ^b   Knight, Stefan D ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly; Chaperone usher pathway; Protein structure; Secretion

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CAPSULAR ANTIGEN FRACTION 1; CHAPERONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAF1 PROTEIN, YERSINIA PESTIS; CARRIER PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77957244767     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.034     Document Type: Article

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