Secretion and properties of the large and small lobes of the channel- forming toxin aerolysin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 341-352

  Diep, Dzung B ^a   Lawrence, Tracy S ^a   Ausio, Juan ^a   Howard, S Peter ^b   Buckley, James Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROLYSIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; DIMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ERYTHROCYTES; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HUMANS; MICE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RATS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031756554     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01068.x     Document Type: Article

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