Publication Date:
1998-05-09
Description:
The type III secretion system of Salmonella typhimurium directs the translocation of proteins into host cells. Evolutionarily related to the flagellar assembly machinery, this system is also present in other pathogenic bacteria, but its organization is unknown. Electron microscopy revealed supramolecular structures spanning the inner and outer membranes of flagellated and nonflagellated strains; such structures were not detected in strains carrying null mutations in components of the type III apparatus. Isolated structures were found to contain at least three proteins of this secretion system. Thus, the type III apparatus of S. typhimurium, and presumably other bacteria, exists as a supramolecular structure in the bacterial envelope.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kubori, T -- Matsushima, Y -- Nakamura, D -- Uralil, J -- Lara-Tejero, M -- Sukhan, A -- Galan, J E -- Aizawa, S I -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 24;280(5363):602-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biosciences, Teikyo University, 1-1 Toyosatodai, Utsunomiya 320, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9554854" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/analysis
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Bacterial Proteins/*analysis/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Cell Membrane/chemistry/ultrastructure
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Centrifugation, Density Gradient
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Macromolecular Substances
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Membrane Proteins/*analysis/chemistry/ultrastructure
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*Membrane Transport Proteins
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Microscopy, Electron
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Microscopy, Immunoelectron
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Porins/analysis
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Salmonella typhimurium/*chemistry/metabolism/*ultrastructure
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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