Tumor protease-activated, pore-forming toxins from a combinatorial library

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 852-856

  Panchal, Rekha G ^a   Cusack, Evelyn ^a   Cheley, Stephen ^a   Bayley, Hagan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Immunotoxin; Molecular trigger; Transmembrane pore; Tumor protease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATHEPSIN B; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; HEMOLYSIN; IMMUNOTOXIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUMOR CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATHEPSIN B; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; EXOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029941746     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0796-852     Document Type: Article

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