Structure of a PE-PPE-EspG complex from mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals molecular specificity of ESX protein secretion

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

Volumn 111, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 14758-14763

  Ekiert, Damian C ^a   Cox, Jeffery S ^a   Hultgren, Scott J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Host pathogen interactions; Protein secretion; Tuberculosis; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84907919469     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409345111     Document Type: Article

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