Contribution of individual tryptophan residues to the structure and activity of θ-toxin (perfringolysin O), a cholesterol-binding cytolysin

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 941-947

  Sekino Suzuki, Naoko ^a   Nakamura, Megumi ^a   Mitsui, Ken Ichiro ^b   Ohno Iwashita, Yoshiko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholesterol binding; Cytolysin; Perfringolysin O; Site directed mutagenesis; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029972377     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00941.x     Document Type: Article

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