Needle length control and the secretion substrate specificity switch are only loosely coupled in the type III secretion apparatus of Shigella

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1884-1896

  Shen, Da Kang ^a   Moriya, Nao ^a,b   Martinez Argudo, Isabel ^a,c   Blocker, Ariel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales y Bioquímica Toledo   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SPA32 PROTEIN; SPA40 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM NEEDLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SHIGELLA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 84863653129     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.059618-0     Document Type: Article

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