Structure of the Type III Secretion Effector Protein ExoU in Complex with Its Chaperone SpcU

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Halavaty, Andrei S ^a,b   Borek, Dominika ^b,c   Tyson, Gregory H ^a   Veesenmeyer, Jeff L ^a,d   Shuvalova, Ludmilla ^a,b   Minasov, George ^a,b   Otwinowski, Zbyszek ^b,c   Hauser, Alan R ^a   Anderson, Wayne F ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONE SPCU; EFFECTOR PROTEIN EXOU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CYTOSOL; EXOU GENE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPSU GENE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BIOPHYSICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84869137827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049388     Document Type: Article

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