Evidence that a region(s) of the clostridium perfringens enterotoxin molecule remains exposed on the external surface of the mammalian plasma membrane when the toxin is sequestered in small or large complexes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1020-1025

  Kokai Kun, John F ^a   McClane, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD POISONING; INTESTINE BRUSH BORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROTOXINS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MICROVILLI; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RABBITS;

EID: 0030051296     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.3.1020-1025.1996     Document Type: Article

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