Neisseria gonorrhoeae RecQ helicase HRDC domains are essential for efficient binding and unwinding of the pilE guanine quartet structure required for pilin antigenic variation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2255-2261

  Cahoon, Laty A ^a,c   Manthei, Kelly A ^b   Rotman, Ella ^a   Keck, James L ^b   Steven Seifert, H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PILIN; RECQ HELICASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BINDING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECQ HELICASES;

EID: 84877998386     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02217-12     Document Type: Article

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