Functional identification of conserved residues involved in Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain GG sortase specificity and pilus biogenesis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 15764-15775

  Douillard, François P ^a   Rasinkangas, Pia ^a   Von Ossowski, Ingemar ^a   Reunanen, Justus ^a   Palva, Airi ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS;

CONSERVED RESIDUES; FUNCTIONAL IDENTIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS STRAIN; SORTASE;

BACILLI;

GLYCINE; PILIN; SORTASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE CLUSTER; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (EM); PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNALING; SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GLYCINE; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROBIOTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901711641     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.542332     Document Type: Article

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