| Literature DB >> 14506477 |
C Erec Stebbins1, Jorge E Galán.
Abstract
Several medically important Gram-negative bacterial pathogens inject virulence factors into host cells through a type III secretion system and specialized bacterial chaperones are required for their effective delivery. Recent structural work shows that these chaperones maintain virulence factors in a partially non-globular conformation that is primed for unfolding and translocation through the 'injectisome'.Mesh:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14506477 DOI: 10.1038/nrm1201
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol ISSN: 1471-0072 Impact factor: 94.444