Interaction of Leptospira elongation factor Tu with plasminogen and complement factor H: a metabolic leptospiral protein with moonlighting activities.

The elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), an abundant bacterial protein involved in protein synthesis, has been shown to display moonlighting activities. Known to perform more than one function at different times or in different places, it is found in several subcellular locations in a single organism, and...

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Main Authors: Danielly G Wolff, Mónica M Castiblanco-Valencia, Cecília M Abe, Denize Monaris, Zenaide M Morais, Gisele O Souza, Sílvio A Vasconcellos, Lourdes Isaac, Patrícia A E Abreu, Angela S Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3842364?pdf=render