Flexibility in the receptor-binding domain of the enzymatic colicin E9 is required for toxicity against Escherichia coli cells

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4520-4527

  Penfold, Christopher N ^a   Healy, Bryan ^a   Housden, Nicholas G ^b   Boetzel, Ruth ^c   Vankemmelbeke, Mireille ^a   Moore, Geoffrey R ^c   Kleanthous, Colin ^b   James, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLICIN; COLICIN E9; CYSTEINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DIAMIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; PROTEIN BTUB; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CYTOTOXICITY; DISULFIDE BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; COLICINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DIAMIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3042855401     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.14.4520-4527.2004     Document Type: Article

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