Insights into the structure and assembly of a bacterial cellulose secretion system

Insights into the structure and assembly of a bacterial cellulose secretion system

Many Gram-negative bacteria secrete exopolysaccharides via functionally homologous synthase-dependent systems. Here the authors use electron microscopy to reveal that biofilm-promoting cellulose in E. coli is secreted by a conserved multi-component secretion system with a megadalton-sized asymmetric...

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Main Authors: Petya Violinova Krasteva, Joaquin Bernal-Bayard, Laetitia Travier, Fernando Ariel Martin, Pierre-Alexandre Kaminski, Gouzel Karimova, Rémi Fronzes, Jean-Marc Ghigo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01523-2
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Summary:Many Gram-negative bacteria secrete exopolysaccharides via functionally homologous synthase-dependent systems. Here the authors use electron microscopy to reveal that biofilm-promoting cellulose in E. coli is secreted by a conserved multi-component secretion system with a megadalton-sized asymmetric architecture.
ISSN:2041-1723

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