Role of aromatic amino acids in receptor binding activity and subunit assembly of the cytolethal distending toxin of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2812-2821

  Cao, Linsen ^a   Bandelac, Georges ^a   Volgina, Alla ^a   Korostoff, Jonathan ^a   Dirienzo, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; CYTOLETHAL DISTENDING TOXIN; HISTIDINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; THYROGLOBULIN; TYROSINE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CYTOLETHAL DISTENDING TOXIN, ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS;

ACTINOBACILLUS; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUTH MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRICETULUS; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BINDING SITES; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TYROSINE;

EID: 46449100439     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00126-08     Document Type: Article

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