Pilus backbone protein PitB of Streptococcus pneumoniae contains stabilizing intramolecular isopeptide bonds

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 409, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 526-531

  Zähner, Dorothea ^a,c   Gandhi, Ashish R ^a   Stuchlik, Olga ^b   Reed, Matthew ^b   Pohl, Jan ^b   Stephens, David S ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fimbrial protein; Intramolecular cross link; Mass spectrometry; Proteolytic stability; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PITB; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CROSS LINKING; EDMAN SEQUENCING; INTRAMOLECULAR ISOPEPTIDE BOND; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STABILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 79958232693     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.05.038     Document Type: Article

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