Oligomerization of anthrax toxin protective antigen and binding of lethal factor during endocytic uptake into mammalian cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1853-1859

  Singh, Yogendra ^a   Klimpel, Kurt R ^b   Goel, Seema ^a   Swain, Prabodha K ^a   Leppla, Stephen H ^b  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; ENDOCYTOSIS; INTERNALIZATION; LETHAL GENE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033066901     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.67.4.1853-1859.1999     Document Type: Article

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