The pilus usher controls protein interactions via domain masking and is functional as an oligomer

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 540-546

  Werneburg, Glenn T ^a   Henderson, Nadine S ^a   Portnoy, Erica B ^a   Sarowar, Samema ^a,b   Hultgren, Scott J ^c   Li, Huilin ^a,b   Thanassi, David G ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; FIMC PROTEIN; FIMD PROTEIN; FIMH PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; FIMD PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FIMBRIA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84936847500     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3044     Document Type: Article

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