Mechanical forces regulate the reactivity of a thioester bond in a bacterial adhesin - Echelman, Daniel J.; Lee, Alex Q.; Fernández, Julio M. (The Journal of biological chemistry, 2017)
Keywords: adhesin; Adhesins, Bacterial - chemistry; atomic force microscopy (AFM); bacterial adhesion; Disulfides - chemistry; Editors' Picks; Gram-positive bacteria; Histamine - chemistry; Methylamines - chemistry; pilus mechanics; Protein Folding; single-molecule biophysics; Streptococcus pyogenes - chemistry; thioester bond; single-molecule biophysics; adhesin; atomic force microscopy (AFM); thioester bond; Gram-positive bacteria; pilus mechanics; bacterial adhesion