Structure of clostridium difficile pilj exhibits unprecedented divergence from known type iv pilins

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4334-4345

  Piepenbrink, Kurt H ^a   Maldarelli, Grace A ^a   De La Peña, Claudia F Martinez ^a   Mulvey, George L ^a   Snyder, Greg A ^a   De Masi, Leon ^a   Von Rosenvinge, Erik C ^a   Günther, Sebastian ^a   Armstrong, Glen D ^a   Donnenberg, Michael S ^a,b   Sundberg, Eric J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ADHESION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFILAMENTS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84894121162     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.534404     Document Type: Article

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