Selection of diphtheria toxin active-site mutants in yeast: Rediscovery of glutamic acid-148 as a key residue

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 419, Issue , 1997, Pages 45-52

  Fu, Haian ^a   Blanke, Steven R ^a   Mattheakis, Larry C ^a   Collier, R John ^a  

^a Dept Microbiol and Molec Genet ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL GENE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIPHTHERIA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030990778     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8632-0_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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