Crystal structure of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli colonization factor CS6 reveals a novel type of functional assembly

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1100-1115

  Roy, Saumendra P ^a,b   Rahman, Mohammad M ^b   Yu, Xiao Di ^a,c   Tuittila, Minna ^b   Knight, Stefan D ^a   Zavialov, Anton V ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; COIL SURFACE ANTIGEN 6; FIBRONECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIUM CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CACO-2 CELLS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870250943     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12044     Document Type: Article

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