Structure-function of the channel-forming colicins

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 24, Issue , 1995, Pages 611-641

  Cramer, W A ^a   Heymann, J B ^a   Schendel, S L ^a   Deriy, B N ^b   Cohen, F S ^b   Elkins, P A ^a   Stauffacher, C V ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cytotoxin; immunity protein; ion channel; membrane binding; membrane protein; molten globule

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; COLICIN; HISTIDINE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CHANNEL GATING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029120439     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bb.24.060195.003143     Document Type: Review

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