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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2015-10-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01459-15 |