DsbA is required for stability of the type IV pilin of enteropathogenic escherichia coli.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.431403.x

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DsbA is required for stability of the type IV pilin of enteropathogenic escherichia coli.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Aug 1996

Zhang H Z, Donnenberg M S

Abstract excerpt

The periplasmic Escherichia coli enzyme DsbA catalyses the efficient formation of disulphide linkages in numerous extracytoplasmic proteins. Enteropathogenic E. coli, a major cause of infantile diarrhoea worldwide, expresses a type IV fimbria known as the bundle-forming pilus that promotes adhere...

Topics

Bacterial Adhesion
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Cloning, Molecular
Cysteine
Escherichia coli
Fimbriae Proteins
Fimbriae, Bacterial
Genes, Bacterial
Isomerases
Mutation
Protein Disulfide-Isomerases
Protein Precursors
Transcription, Genetic

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