Molecular basis of usher pore gating in Escherichia coli pilus biogenesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20741-20746

  Volkan, Ender ^a,b   Kalas, Vasilios ^a   Pinkner, Jerome S ^a   Dodson, Karen W ^a   Henderson, Nadine S ^c   Pham, Thieng ^d   Waksman, Gabriel ^e   Delcour, Anne H ^d   Thanassi, David G ^c   Hultgren, Scott J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenesis; Macromolecular assembly; Outer membrane usher

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYSTEINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL SURFACE; CHANNEL GATING; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84890832019     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320528110     Document Type: Article

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