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Mycoplasma pneumoniae J-domain protein required for terminal organelle function.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Mar 2009
Cloward Jason M, Krause Duncan C
Abstract excerpt
The cell wall-less prokaryote Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes tracheobronchitis and primary atypical pneumonia in humans. Colonization of the respiratory epithelium requires proper assembly of a complex, multifunctional, polar terminal organelle. Loss of a predicted J-domain protein also having domains unique to mycoplasma terminal organelle proteins (TopJ) resulted in a non-motile, adherence-deficient phenotype....
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