The Type VI Secretion TssEFGK-VgrG Phage-Like Baseplate Is Recruited to the TssJLM Membrane Complex via Multiple Contacts and Serves As Assembly Platform for Tail Tube/Sheath Polymerization

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Brunet, Yannick R ^a,d   Zoued, Abdelrahim ^a   Boyer, Frédéric ^b   Douzi, Badreddine ^a,c   Cascales, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; TSSA PROTEIN; TSSE PROTEIN; TSSG PROTEIN; TSSK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VGRG PROTEIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GENE 5 PROTEIN, ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; VIRAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIOPHAGE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEMS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL TAIL PROTEINS;

EID: 84946605861     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005545     Document Type: Article

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