Role of Autocleavage in the Function of a Type III Secretion Specificity Switch Protein in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Salmonella enterica</named-content> Serovar Typhimurium

ABSTRACT Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are multiprotein machines employed by many Gram-negative bacteria to inject bacterial effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells to promote bacterial survival and colonization. The core unit of T3SSs is the needle complex, a supramolecular structure that...

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Main Authors: Julia V. Monjarás Feria, Matthew D. Lefebre, York-Dieter Stierhof, Jorge E. Galán, Samuel Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-10-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01459-15