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SUBMITTER: Hung DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC22208 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hung D L DL Pinkner J S JS Knight S D SD Hultgren S J SJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19990701 14
PapD is an immunoglobulin-like chaperone that mediates the assembly of P pili in uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli. It binds and caps interactive surfaces on pilus subunits to prevent their premature associations in the periplasm. We elucidated the structural basis of a mechanism whereby PapD also interacts with itself, capping its own subunit binding surface. Crystal structures of dimeric forms of PapD revealed that this self-capping mechanism involves a rearrangement and ordering of th ...[more]