Interaction of viscotoxins A3 and B with membrane model systems: Implications to their mechanism of action

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 971-981

  Giudici, Marcela ^a,b   Pascual, Roberto ^a   De la Canal, Laura ^b   Pfüller, Karola ^c   Pfüller, Uwe ^c   Villalaín, José ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISCOTOXIN; VISCOTOXIN A3; LETOSTEINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VISCOTOXIN A3, VISCUM ALBUM; VISCOTOXIN B, VISCUM ALBUM;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG INTERACTION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIPID BILAYER; MACROMOLECULE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANISOTROPY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; LIPID BILAYERS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PERMEABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PLANT PROTEINS; POROSITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES;

EID: 0041843711     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74536-6     Document Type: Article

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