Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Assembly and substrate recognition of curli biogenesis system

  • Zhaofeng Yan,
  • Meng Yin,
  • Jianan Chen,
  • Xueming Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14145-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A major component of bacterial biofilms is curli amyloid fibrils secreted by the curli biogenesis system. Here authors use cryo-EM to visualize the secretion channel complexes (CsgF-CsgG) with and without the curli substrate and provide insights into curli biogenesis.