Protein engineering studies of A-chain loop 47-56 of Escherichia coll heat-labile enterotoxin point to a prominent role of this loop for cytotoxicity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 823-832

  Feil, Ingeborg K ^a   Reddy, Raghava ^b   De Haan, Lolke ^c   Merritt, Ethan A ^a   Van Den Akker, Focco ^a,b   Storm, Daniel R ^b   Hol, Wim G J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CYCLIC AMP; ENTEROTOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OVARY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029897005     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02520.x     Document Type: Article

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