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SUBMITTER: Nemec KN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2823069 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nemec Kathleen N KN Scaglione Patricia P Navarro-García Fernando F Huerta Jazmín J Tatulian Suren A SA Teter Ken K
Biochimie 20091126 2
Autotransporters are the most common virulence factors secreted from Gram-negative pathogens. Until recently, autotransporter folding and outer membrane translocation were thought to be self-mediated events that did not require accessory factors. Here, we report that two variants of the autotransporter plasmid-encoded toxin are secreted by a lab strain of Escherichia coli. Biophysical analysis and cell-based toxicity assays demonstrated that only one of the two variants was in a folded, active c ...[more]