Autoproteolytic activation of bacterial toxins

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 963-977

  Shen, Aimee ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine protease domain (CPD); Glucosylating toxin (GT); Glucosyltransferase (Glc); Inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6); MARTX toxin; Structure activity relationship (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MARTX TOXIN; PHYTIC ACID; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; GLYCOSYLATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CYSTEINE PROTEASES; PHYTIC ACID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM SP.; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79952064512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2050963     Document Type: Review

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