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cooD  -  CooD precursor

Escherichia coli

 
 
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Disease relevance of cooD

  • Following cooD is DNA homologous to an insertion sequence, so cooB, A, C and D appear to encode all the information needed for E. coli K-12 to synthesize CS1 pili [1].
 

High impact information on cooD

  • In this study, we confirm that CooD is required for the initiation of pilus assembly rather than for the stabilization of pili after they are assembled by demonstrating that specific modulation of cooD expression also modulates the number of CS1 pili on bacterial cells [2].

References

  1. CooC and CooD are required for assembly of CS1 pili. Froehlich, B.J., Karakashian, A., Melsen, L.R., Wakefield, J.C., Scott, J.R. Mol. Microbiol. (1994) [Pubmed]
  2. The level of expression of the minor pilin subunit, CooD, determines the number of CS1 pili assembled on the cell surface of Escherichia coli. Sakellaris, H., Penumalli, V.R., Scott, J.R. J. Bacteriol. (1999) [Pubmed]
 
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