Functional expression and characterization of an acidic actinoporin from sea anemone Sagartia rosea

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 312, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 562-570

  Jiang, Xiaoyu ^a   Chen, Huiping ^a   Yang, Wenli ^a   Liu, Yun ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Wei, Jianwen ^a   Tu, Hongbin ^a   Xie, Xiaojin ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Xu, Anlong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acidic actinoporin; Cytolytic and cytotoxic activity; Lipid vesicles; Sagartia rosea; Src I

Indexed keywords

ACID; ACTINOPORIN; CALCEIN; COELENTERATE VENOM; CYTOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPID; MEMBRANE LIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PORIN; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN; SRC1 PROTEIN, SAGARTIA ROSEA; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EMBRYO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; ISOELECTRIC POINT; LAMELLAR BODY; LIPID VESICLE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEA ANEMONE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SAGARTIA; SAGARTIA ROSEA;

EID: 10744224992     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.10.159     Document Type: Article

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