The role of chaperone-subunit usher domain interactions in the mechanism of bacterial pilus biogenesis revealed by ESI-MS

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Morrissey, Bethny ^a   Leney, Aneika C ^a   Rêgo, Ana Toste ^b   Phan, Gilles ^b   Allen, William J ^b   Verger, Denis ^b   Waksman, Gabriel ^b   Ashcroft, Alison E ^a   Radford, Sheena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; PAPG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADHESIN; ATPG PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PAPD PROTEIN, E COLI; PAPG PROTEIN, E COLI; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; PORIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PORINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 84863810994     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M111.015289     Document Type: Article

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