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Alternative folding to a monomer or homopolymer is a common feature of the type 1 pilus subunit FimA from enteroinvasive bacteria

Adhesive type 1 pili from enteroinvasive, Gram-negative bacteria mediate attachment to host cells. Up to 3000 copies of the main pilus subunit, FimA, assemble into the filamentous, helical quaternary structure of the pilus rod via a mechanism termed donor-strand complementation, in which the N-termi...

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Autores principales: Żyła, Dawid S., Prota, Andrea E., Capitani, Guido, Glockshuber, Rudi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6615685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.008610

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