Lillington, James and Waksman, Gabriel (2013) Ordered and ushered; the assembly and translocation of the adhesive Type I and P Pili. Biology 2 (3), pp. 841-860. ISSN 2079-7737.
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Abstract
Type I and P pili are chaperone-usher pili of uropathogenic Escherichia coli, which allow bacteria to adhere to host cell receptors. Pilus formation and secretion are orchestrated by two accessory proteins, a chaperone, which catalyses pilus subunit folding and maintains them in a polymerization-competent state, and an outer membrane-spanning nanomachine, the usher, which choreographs their assembly into a pilus and drives their secretion through the membrane. In this review, recent structures and kinetic studies are combined to examine the mechanism of type I and P pili assembly, as it is currently known. We also investigate how the knowledge of pilus biogenesis mechanisms has been exploited to design selective inhibitors of the process.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | chaperone-usher pathway, type I and P pilus, chaperone, usher, donor-strand complementation, donor-strand exchange, pilicide |
| 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: | 17 Mar 2015 12:31 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11839 |
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