Crystal structure of the transport unit of the autotransporter adhesin involved in diffuse adherence from Escherichia coli

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-29

  Gawarzewski, Iris ^a,c   DiMaio, Frank ^b   Winterer, Elisa ^c   Tschapek, Britta ^a   Smits, Sander H J ^a   Jose, Joachim ^c   Schmitt, Lutz ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIDA I; Autotransporter; Escherichia coli; Membrane proteins; Outer membrane (OM); Protein secretion; Protein structure; Structural biology; Type V secretion; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMINO ACID; AIDA-I PROTEIN, E COLI; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84902182781     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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