Does distant homology with Evf reveal a lipid binding site in Bacillus thuringiensis cytolytic toxins?

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1555-1560

  Rigden, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytolytic toxin; Distant homology; Erwinia virulence factor; Lipid binding; Structural superposition

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; PESTICIDE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOTOXICITY; ERWINIA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ENDOTOXINS; ERWINIA; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA;

EID: 65549114073     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.04.038     Document Type: Article

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