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Chaperone–usher pathways: diversity and pilus assembly mechanism

Author(s) -

Andreas Büsch,

Gabriel Waksman

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1471-2970

pISSN - 0962-8436

DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2011.0206

Subject(s) - pilus , secretion , fimbria , chaperone (clinical) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , escherichia coli , genetics , biochemistry , gene , medicine , pathology

Up to eight different types of secretion systems, and several more subtypes, have been described in Gram-negative bacteria. Here, we focus on the diversity and assembly mechanism of one of the best-studied secretion systems, the widespread chaperone-usher pathway known to assemble and secrete adhesive surface structures, called pili or fimbriae, which play essential roles in targeting bacterial pathogens to the host.

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