Characterization of the cleavage site and function of resulting cleavage fragments after limited proteolysis of Clostridium difficile toxin B (TcdB) by host cells

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 199-208

  Rupnik, Maja ^a,b   Pabst, Stefan ^b,e   Rupnik, Marjan ^c   von Eichel Streiber, Christoph ^d   Urlaub, Henning ^b   Söling, Hans Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; PEPSTATIN; PROTEINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HAMSTER; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; LUNG FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; TOXICITY TESTING; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FIBROBLASTS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; VERO CELLS;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 13444261172     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27474-0     Document Type: Article

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