Expression and properties of an aerolysin - Clostridium sepficum alpha toxin hybrid protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 785-794

  Diep, Dzung B ^a   Nelson, Kim L ^a   Lawrence, Tracy S ^a   Sellman, Bret R ^b   Tweten, Rodney K ^b   Buckley, J Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; GLYCOPHORIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHO CELLS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CRICETINAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS SALMONICIDA; ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032908938     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01217.x     Document Type: Article

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