Structure of the VirB4 ATPase, alone and bound to the core complex of a type IV secretion system

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

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11348-11353

  Walldén, Karin ^a   Williams, Robert ^a   Yan, Jun ^b   Lian, Pei W ^a   Wang, Luchun ^a   Thalassinos, Konstantinos ^b   Orlova, Elena V ^a   Waksman, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Macromolecular assembly; Structural biology

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE VIRB4; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE VIRB9; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE VIRD4; ARGININE; DNA; MONOMER; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTER PSEUDETHANOLICUS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAGNESIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMOANAEROBACTER;

EID: 84863923408     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201428109     Document Type: Article

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