Publication Date:
1999-08-14
Description:
Type 1 pili-adhesive fibers expressed in most members of the Enterobacteriaceae family-mediate binding to mannose receptors on host cells through the FimH adhesin. Pilus biogenesis proceeds by way of the chaperone/usher pathway. The x-ray structure of the FimC-FimH chaperone-adhesin complex from uropathogenic Escherichia coli at 2.5 angstrom resolution reveals the basis for carbohydrate recognition and for pilus assembly. The carboxyl-terminal pilin domain of FimH has an immunoglobulin-like fold, except that the seventh strand is missing, leaving part of the hydrophobic core exposed. A donor strand complementation mechanism in which the chaperone donates a strand to complete the pilin domain explains the basis for both chaperone function and pilus biogenesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Choudhury, D -- Thompson, A -- Stojanoff, V -- Langermann, S -- Pinkner, J -- Hultgren, S J -- Knight, S D -- R01AI29549/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01DK51406/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Aug 13;285(5430):1061-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 590, S-753 24 Uppsala, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10446051" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adhesins, Bacterial/*chemistry/metabolism
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*Adhesins, Escherichia coli
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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*Bacterial Proteins
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Chlorpropamide/analogs & derivatives/metabolism
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Escherichia coli/*chemistry/metabolism/pathogenicity
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*Escherichia coli Proteins
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Fimbriae Proteins
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Fimbriae, Bacterial/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Membrane Proteins/*chemistry
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Chaperones/*chemistry/metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Sequence Alignment
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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