A comprehensive guide to pilus biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 365-379

  Hospenthal, Manuela K ^a   Costa, Tiago R D ^a   Waksman, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CHAPERONE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

BIOGENESIS; CONJUGATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FIMBRIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85018926252     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.40     Document Type: Review

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