Functional heterogeneity of the UpaH autotransporter protein from uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 5769-5782

  Allsopp, Luke P ^a   Beloin, Christophe ^b   Moriel, Danilo Gomes ^a   Totsika, Makrina ^a   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^b   Schembri, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN UPAH; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84868611194     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01264-12     Document Type: Article

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