Channel-forming toxins: Tales of transformation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 566-573

  Gouaux, Eric ^a  

^a 650 W 168th Street ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; COLICIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; ANTHRAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030865151     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80123-6     Document Type: Article

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