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SUBMITTER: Franz LP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3045273 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Franz Laura P LP Douzi Badreddine B Durand Eric E Dyer David H DH Voulhoux Romé R Forest Katrina T KT
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography 20110115 Pt 2
Pseudomonas aeruginosa utilizes the type II secretion machinery to transport virulence factors through the outer membrane into the extracellular space. Five proteins in the type II secretion system share sequence homology with pilin subunits of type IV pili and are called the pseudopilins. The major pseudopilin XcpT(G) assembles into an intraperiplasmic pilus and is thought to act in a piston-like manner to push substrates through an outer membrane secretin. The other four minor pseudopilins, Xc ...[more]