Architects at the bacterial surface — sortases and the assembly of pili with isopeptide bonds
Architects at the bacterial surface — sortases and the assembly of pili with isopeptide bonds
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Sortases are transpeptidase enzymes; the specificity of their substrate cleavage is determined by recognition of substrate sorting signals followed by the transfer of the liberated carboxyl group to an amino group nucleophile that is present in either a cell wall peptidoglycan subunit or a pilus subunit.
Gram-positive bacteria have...
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Architects at the bacterial surface — sortases and the assembly of pili with isopeptide bonds
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_923195107
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_923195107
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1740-1526
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1740-1534
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10.1038/nrmicro2520
