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SUBMITTER: Wong E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3257281 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wong Edmond E Vaaje-Kolstad Gustav G Ghosh Avishek A Hurtado-Guerrero Ramon R Konarev Peter V PV Ibrahim Adel F M AF Svergun Dmitri I DI Eijsink Vincent G H VG Chatterjee Nabendu S NS van Aalten Daan M F DM
PLoS pathogens 20120112 1
Vibrio cholerae is a bacterial pathogen that colonizes the chitinous exoskeleton of zooplankton as well as the human gastrointestinal tract. Colonization of these different niches involves an N-acetylglucosamine binding protein (GbpA) that has been reported to mediate bacterial attachment to both marine chitin and mammalian intestinal mucin through an unknown molecular mechanism. We report structural studies that reveal that GbpA possesses an unusual, elongated, four-domain structure, with domai ...[more]