Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ramaswamy R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6613448 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramaswamy Raghavendran R Houston Simon S Loveless Bianca B Cameron Caroline E CE Boulanger Martin J MJ
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications 20190626 Pt 7
The phylogenetically divergent spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis. Central to the capacity of T. pallidum to establish infection is the ability of the pathogen to attach to a diversity of host cells. Many pathogenic bacteria employ leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain-containing proteins to mediate protein-protein interactions, including attachment to host components and establishment of infection. Intriguingly, T. pallidum expresses only one p ...[more]