Cytotoxicity of the Bacillus cereus Nhe enterotoxin requires specific binding order of its three exoprotein components

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3813-3821

  Lindbäck, Toril ^a   Hardy, Simon P ^a   Dietrich, Richard ^b   Sødring, Marianne ^a   Didier, Andrea ^b   Moravek, Maximilian ^b   Fagerlund, Annette ^a,c   Bock, Stefanie ^b   Nielsen, Carina ^b   Casteel, Maximilian ^b   Granum, Per Einar ^a   Märtlbauer, Erwin ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENTEROTOXIN; NHEA ENTEROTOXIN; NHEB ENTEROTOXIN; NHEC ENTEROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENTEROTOXIN, BACILLUS CEREUS; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; VERO CELL; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; SECRETION;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENTEROTOXINS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; VERO CELLS;

EID: 77956644756     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00247-10     Document Type: Article

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