A conserved fold for fimbrial components revealed by the crystal structure of a putative fimbrial assembly protein (BT1062) from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron at 2.2 A resolution
Xu, Q., Abdubek, P., Astakhova, T., Axelrod, H.L., Bakolitsa, C., Cai, X., Carlton, D., Chen, C., Chiu, H.J., Chiu, M., Clayton, T., Das, D., Deller, M.C., Duan, L., Ellrott, K., Farr, C.L., Feuerhelm, J., Grant, J.C., Grzechnik, A., Han, G.W., Jaroszewski, L., Jin, K.K., Klock, H.E., Knuth, M.W., Kozbial, P., Krishna, S.S., Kumar, A., Marciano, D., McMullan, D., Miller, M.D., Morse, A.T., Nigoghossian, E., Nopakun, A., Okach, L., Puckett, C., Reyes, R., Sefcovic, N., Tien, H.J., Trame, C.B., van den Bedem, H., Weekes, D., Wooten, T., Yeh, A., Zhou, J., Hodgson, K.O., Wooley, J., Elsliger, M.A., Deacon, A.M., Godzik, A., Lesley, S.A., Wilson, I.A.(2010) Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 66: 1281-1286
- PubMed: 20944223 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1744309110006548
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3GF8 - PubMed Abstract: 
BT1062 from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is a homolog of Mfa2 (PGN0288 or PG0179), which is a component of the minor fimbriae in Porphyromonas gingivalis. The crystal structure of BT1062 revealed a conserved fold that is widely adopted by fimbrial components.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.