Structural insights into the biogenesis and biofilm formation by the Escherichia coli common pilus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3950-3955

  Garnett, James A ^a   Martínez Santos, Verónica I ^b   Saldaña, Zeus ^c   Pape, Tillmann ^a   Hawthorne, William ^a   Chan, Jennifer ^a   Simpson, Peter J ^a   Cota, Ernesto ^a   Puente, José L ^b   Girón, Jorge A ^c   Matthews, Steve ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaperone usher; Donor strand exchange; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; BIOGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84857948203     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106733109     Document Type: Article

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