Investigating early events in receptor binding and translocation of colicin E9 using synchronized cell killing and proteolytic cleavage

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4342-4350

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Vankemmelbeke, Mireille N ^a   Holland, Lisa E ^a,b   Walker, David C ^a,c   James, Richard ^a   Penfold, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Merck Biosciences Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLICIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DISULFIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; ENTEROPEPTIDASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CELL SURFACE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SUPERNATANT;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COLICINS; DITHIOTHREITOL; ENTEROPEPTIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PORINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ALEXA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44949113393     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00047-08     Document Type: Article

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