3D imaging of the 58 kDa cell binding subunit of the Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 459-470

  Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a   Lanzavecchia, Salvatore ^b   Lupetti, Pietro ^c   De Bernard, Marina ^d   Pagliaccia, Cristina ^a   Pelicic, Vladimir ^d   Charrel, Marie ^a   Ulivieri, Cristina ^c   Norais, Nathalie ^a   Ji, Xuhuai ^a   Cabiaux, Veronique ^e   Papini, Emanuele ^d   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Telford, John L ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; B subunit; Helicobacter pylori; Vacuolating cytotoxin

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; EXOTOXIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0033538416     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2877     Document Type: Article

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