Listeriolysin O: Cholesterol inhibits cytolysis but not binding to cellular membranes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1081-1089

  Jacobs, Thomas ^a   Darji, Ayub ^a   Frahm, Nicole ^a   Rohde, Manfred ^a   Wehland, Jürgen ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^b   Weiss, Siegfried ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE; LIPOSOME; LISTERIOLYSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIPOSOMES; LYMPHOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYMERS; SHEEP; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031776879     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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