The bacterial fimbrial tip acts as a mechanical force sensor

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Aprikian, Pavel ^a   Interlandi, Gianluca ^b   Kidd, Brian A ^b   Le Trong, Isolde ^a   Tchesnokova, Veronika ^a   Yakovenko, Olga ^b   Whitfield, Matt J ^b   Bullitt, Esther ^c   Stenkamp, Ronald E ^a   Thomas, Wendy E ^b   Sokurenko, Evgeni V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LECTIN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN FIMG; PROTEIN FIMH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; FIMH PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOSENSOR; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL ADHESION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MANNOSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 79958065277     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000617     Document Type: Article

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