A new cytolytic protein from the sea anemone Urticina crassicornis that binds to cholesterol- and sphingomyelin-rich membranes

Toxicon

Volumn 53, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 762-769

  Razpotnik, Andrej ^a   Križaj, Igor ^b   Kem, William R ^c   Maček, Peter ^a   Turk, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Cytolysin; Lipid raft; Membrane; Sea anemone; Sphingomyelin

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYTOLYSIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SPHINGOMYELIN; UCL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; LIPID VESICLE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; SEA ANEMONE; URTICINA CRASSICORNIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FREEZE DRYING; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MEMBRANES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; RNA, MESSENGER; SPHINGOMYELINS;

ACTINIARIA; BOVINAE; URTICINA CRASSICORNIS; URTICINA PISCIVORA;

EID: 67349110817     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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