Article
Consequences of the loss of O-linked glycosylation of meningococcal type IV pilin on piliation and pilus-mediated adhesion.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 1998
Marceau M, Forest K, Béretti J L, Tainer J, Nassif X
Abstract excerpt
Pili, which are assembled from protein subunits called pilin, are indispensable for the adhesion of capsulated Neisseria meningitidis (MC) to eukaryotic cells. Both MC and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) pilins are glycosylated, but the effect of this modification is unknown. In GC, a galactose alpha-...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Alanine
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Glycosylation
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Serine
- Tumor Cells, Cultured