Catching Pneumonia

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2010 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Structure, volume 18, pages 6-8 (issn: 0969-2126,

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Authors: Liddington, Robert;

doi: 10.1016/j.str.2009.12.005

pmid: 20152147

Catching Pneumonia

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Abstract

Many Gram-positive bacteria have pili attached to their cell walls, but they are much simpler and shorter than their more familiar Gram-negative analogs. The structure of an “adhesin” from the tip of the pneumococcal pilus (Izoré et al., 2010) reveals intradomain insertions of eukaryotic origin that may hold the key to systemic invasion.

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Keywords

Protein Folding, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Structural Biology, Fimbriae, Bacterial, Adhesins, Bacterial, Molecular Biology, Protein Binding

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