In vitro proteolytic processing and activation of the recombinant precursor of El Tor cytolysin/hemolysin (pro-HlyA) of Vibrio cholerae by soluble hemagglutinin/protease of V. cholerae, trypsin, and other proteases

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4655-4658

  Nagamune, Kisaburo ^a   Yamamoto, Koichiro ^a   Naka, Atsuko ^a   Matsuyama, Junko ^a   Miwatani, Toshio ^a,b   Honda, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STEM CELL; SUPERNATANT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0029858955     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.11.4655-4658.1996     Document Type: Article

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