Importance of arginine at position 170 of the A subunit of Vero toxin 1 produced by enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli for toxin activity

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 1-9

  Yamasaki, Shinji ^a   Furutani, Masayuki ^b   Ito, Kiyoshi ^b   Igarashi, Kazuei ^b   Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

enterohemorrhagic E. coli; Shiga like toxin 1 (SLT I); site directed mutagenesis; Vero toxin 1 (VT1); Vero toxin producing E. coli

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOTOXIN; PROTEIN; VEROTOXIN 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DEATH; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VERO CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARGININE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DEATH; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOTOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEINS; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0026185113     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0882-4010(91)90088-R     Document Type: Article

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