Pilin expression and processing in pilus mutants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: critical role of Gly-1 in assembly.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1991.tb02108.x

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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...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Antigens, Bacterial
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Base Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
Cross Reactions
DNA, Bacterial
Escherichia coli
Fimbriae Proteins
Fimbriae, Bacterial
Glycine

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Immunoblotting

Microscopy, Electron, Scanning

Molecular Sequence Data

Mutation

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Protein Processing, Post-Translational

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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PMID: 1674976
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1991.tb02108.x

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