Function of the usher N-terminus in catalysing pilus assembly

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 954-967

  Henderson, Nadine S ^a   Ng, Tony W ^a,b   Talukder, Iehab ^a,c   Thanassi, David G ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CYSTEINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN FIMD; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN PAPC; PROTEIN FIMC; PROTEIN PAPD; PROTEIN PAPDG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CATALYSIS; CHAPERONE USHER PATHWAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE CLUSTER; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; MUTATION; PORINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79551663696     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07505.x     Document Type: Article

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