Contribution of the disulfide bond of the A subunit to the action of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1368-1374

  Okamoto, Keinosuke ^a   Nomura, Tomohiko ^a   Fujii, Yoshio ^a   Yamanaka, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TARGET CELL; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0031942258     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.6.1368-1374.1998     Document Type: Article

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