Domain activities of PapC usher reveal the mechanism of action of an Escherichia coli molecular machine

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

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 9563-9568

  Volkan, Ender ^a   Ford, Bradley A ^a   Pinkner, Jerome S ^a   Dodson, Karen W ^a   Henderson, Nadine S ^b   Thanassi, David G ^b   Waksman, Gabriel ^c   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenesis; Biolayer interferometry; Macromolecular assembly; Urinary tract infections; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CHAPERONE; PAPDG COMPLEX; PILIN; PROTEIN PAPC; PROTEIN PAPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BIOPHYSICS; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PERIPLASM; PORINS;

EID: 84862239241     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207085109     Document Type: Article

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