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Pilin expression and processing in pilus mutants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: critical role of Gly-1 in assembly.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 1991
Koomey M, Bergstrom S, Blake M, Swanson J
Abstract excerpt
Spontaneous mutants of Neisseria gonorrheae failing to express pili or having diminished levels of piliation were studied with regard to pilin expression. All mutants displayed altered pilin processing detectable as the release of soluble, truncated pilin molecules (S-pilin). Of particular interest was the finding, in one mutant, that substitution of serine for glycine at position -1 of propilin, a highly...
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