Chaperone-usher pathways: diversity and pilus assembly mechanism
Busch, Andreas and Waksman, Gabriel (2012) Chaperone-usher pathways: diversity and pilus assembly mechanism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367 (1592), pp. 1112-1122. ISSN 0962-8436.
Abstract
Up to eight different types of secretion systems, and several more subtypes, have been described in Gram-negative bacteria. Here, we focus on the diversity and assembly mechanism of one of the best-studied secretion systems, the widespread chaperone–usher pathway known to assemble and secrete adhesive surface structures, called pili or fimbriae, which play essential roles in targeting bacterial pathogens to the host.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | chaperone–usher, pilus biogenesis, host–pathogen interactions |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of (ISMB) |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2012 09:10 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4647 |
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