BfpL is essential for type IV bundle-forming pilus biogenesis and interacts with the periplasmic face of BfpC

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2515-2526

  De Masi, Leon ^a   Szmacinski, Henryk ^a   Schreiber, Wiebke ^a   Donnenberg, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BUNDLE FORMING PILUS C PROTEIN; BUNDLE FORMING PILUS F PROTEIN; BUNDLE FORMING PILUS L PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867137814     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.060889-0     Document Type: Article

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