Crystal structure of the FimD usher bound to its cognate FimC-FimH substrate

Nature

Volumn 474, Issue 7349, 2011, Pages 49-53

  Phan, Gilles ^a   Remaut, Han ^a,b   Wang, Tao ^c   Allen, William J ^a   Pirker, Katharina F ^a   Lebedev, Andrey ^d   Henderson, Nadine S ^e   Geibel, Sebastian ^a   Volkan, Ender ^f   Yan, Jun ^a   Kunze, Micha B A ^a   Pinkner, Jerome S ^f   Ford, Bradley ^e,g   Kay, Christopher W M ^a   Li, Huilin ^c,e   Hultgren, Scott J ^f   Thanassi, David G ^e   Waksman, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN FIMC; BACTERIAL PROTEIN FIMD; BACTERIAL PROTEIN FIMH; CHAPERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

NEGIBACTERIA; RUMEX;

EID: 79957929732     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10109     Document Type: Article

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