TY - JOUR
T1 - Chaperone-assisted pilus assembly and bacterial attachment
AU - Sauer, Frederic G.
AU - Barnhart, Michelle
AU - Choudhury, Devapriya
AU - Knight, Stefan D.
AU - Waksman, Gabriel
AU - Hultgren, Scott J.
N1 - Funding Information:
SJH is supported by National Institutes of Health grants RO1DK5140604 and R37AI2954910, GW by National Institutes of Health grant RO1GM54033, and SDK by grants from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Structural Biology Network). FGS was supported by a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellowship.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Bacterial pill assembled by the chaperone-usher pathway can mediate microbial attachment, an early step in the establishment of an infection, by binding specifically to sugars present in host tissues. Recent work has begun to reveal the structural basis both of chaperone function in the biogenesis of these pili and of bacterial attachment.
AB - Bacterial pill assembled by the chaperone-usher pathway can mediate microbial attachment, an early step in the establishment of an infection, by binding specifically to sugars present in host tissues. Recent work has begun to reveal the structural basis both of chaperone function in the biogenesis of these pili and of bacterial attachment.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00129-9
DO - 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00129-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 11042452
AN - SCOPUS:0033794322
SN - 0959-440X
VL - 10
SP - 548
EP - 556
JO - Current Opinion in Structural Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Structural Biology
IS - 5
ER -