The clostridium perfringens epsilon-toxin

Reviews and Research in Medical Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages

  Payne, Dean ^a   Diane Williamson, E ^a   Titball, Richard W ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Clostridium perfringens; Epsilon toxin; Mutants

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BRAIN RECEPTOR; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; HISTIDINE; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; CELL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE CULTURE CELL;

EID: 0031440204     PISSN: 0954139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013542-199712001-00014     Document Type: Article

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