Atomic model of the type III secretion system needle.
Loquet, A., Sgourakis, N.G., Gupta, R., Giller, K., Riedel, D., Goosmann, C., Griesinger, C., Kolbe, M., Baker, D., Becker, S., Lange, A.(2012) Nature 486: 276-279
- PubMed: 22699623 
- DOI: 10.1038/nature11079
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2LPZ - PubMed Abstract: 
Pathogenic bacteria using a type III secretion system (T3SS) to manipulate host cells cause many different infections including Shigella dysentery, typhoid fever, enterohaemorrhagic colitis and bubonic plague. An essential part of the T3SS is a hollow needle-like protein filament through which effector proteins are injected into eukaryotic host cells ...