Structure of the key toxin in gas gangrene

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 738-746

  Naylor, Claire E ^a   Eaton, Julian T ^a   Howells, Angela ^b   Justin, Neil ^a   Moss, David S ^a   Titball, Richard W ^b   Basak, Ajit K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHOLIPID BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GAS GANGRENE; HEMOLYSIS; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GAS GANGRENE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANES; METALLOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNCHROTRONS; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031828797     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1447     Document Type: Article

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