Molecular architecture of a toxin pore: A 15-residue sequence lines the transmembrane channel of staphylococcal α-toxin

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1857-1864

  Valeva, Angela ^a   Weisser, Andreas ^a   Walker, Barbara ^b   Kehoe, Michael ^c   Bayley, Hagan ^b   Bhakdi, Sucharit ^a   Palmer, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrylodan; Fluorescence emission shift; Membrane insertion; Protein oligomerization; Single cysteine mutants

Indexed keywords

ACRYLODAN; ALPHA TOXIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HYDROPHILICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLUBILIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029924449     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00536.x     Document Type: Article

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