Calcium-dependent conformation of E. coli α-haemolysin. Implications for the mechanism of membrane insertion and lysis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1368, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-234

  Bakás, Laura ^a   Veiga, M Pilar ^a   Soloaga, Ana ^a   Ostolaza, Helena ^a   Goñi, Félix M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcium binding protein; Coli haemolysin; Membrane protein insertion; Protein toxin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYSIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ION; HEMOLYSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CATIONS, DIVALENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEAT; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LIPID BILAYERS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPSIN; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032545776     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(97)00181-8     Document Type: Article

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