Association of RTX toxins with erythrocytes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4665-4672

  Bauer, Margaret E ^a,b   Welch, Rodney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CALCIUM ION; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; LEUKOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CELL SURFACE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029859138     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.11.4665-4672.1996     Document Type: Article

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