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    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.

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    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.

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    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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