Chimeric clostridial cytotoxins: Identification of the N-terminal region involved in protein substrate recognition

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1076-1081

  Hofmann, Fred ^a   Busch, Christian ^a   Aktories, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; CYTOTOXIN; GLUCOSIDASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031887901     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1076-1081.1998     Document Type: Article

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