Membrane-dependent conformational changes initiate cholesterol-dependent cytolysin oligomerization and intersubunit β-strand alignment

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 697-705

  Ramachandran, Rajesh ^a   Tweten, Rodney K ^b   Johnson, Arthur E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN; DISULFIDE; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE BINDING; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYTOTOXINS; DISULFIDES; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 3543016107     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb793     Document Type: Article

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