Crystal structure of a guanine nucleotide exchange factor encoded by the scrub typhus pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi
Lim C, Berk JM, Blaise A, Bircher J, Koleske AJ, Hochstrasser M, Xiong Y. Crystal structure of a guanine nucleotide exchange factor encoded by the scrub typhus pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2020, 117: 30380-30390. PMID: 33184172, PMCID: PMC7720168, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018163117.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBacterial GEFStructure-guided mutational analysisExchange factor domainRho family GTPasesObvious sequence similarityRho GTPases Rac1Pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushiAlters cell morphologyInteraction screenConvergent evolutionGEF domainHost interactorsExchange factorNucleotide displacementGEF activityCellular processesSequence similarityCytoskeletal structuresGTPases Rac1Ectopic expressionMutational analysisGEFRac1Factor domainPathogenic bacterium
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