Collagen-like proteins in pathogenic E. coli strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ghosh, Neelanjana ^a   McKillop, Thomas J ^a,b   Jowitt, Thomas A ^a   Howard, Marjorie ^a   Davies, Heather ^a   Holmes, David F ^a   Roberts, Ian S ^a   Bella, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN LIKE PROTEIN; FIBRILLAR COLLAGEN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; SHIGA TOXIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOPHYSICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TARGET CELL; THERMOSTABILITY; TRIPLE HELIX; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLLAGEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROPHAGES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84862021997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037872     Document Type: Article

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