The crystal structure of escherichia coli group 4 capsule protein GfcC reveals a domain organization resembling that of Wza

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 5465-5476

  Sathiyamoorthy, Karthik ^a,d   Mills, Erez ^b,e   Franzmann, Titus M ^a   Rosenshine, Ilan ^b   Saper, Mark A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPATHIC; CARBOXYL-TERMINAL; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; FUSION PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GROUP 4; HELICAL HAIRPINS; O-ANTIGEN; ORTHOLOGS; OUTER MEMBRANE; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-LIKE;

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; PROTEINS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN GFCC; PROTEIN WZA; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETA SHEET; BIOFILM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GFCC GENE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 79959235705     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi101869h     Document Type: Article

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