Interactions of anthrax lethal factor with protective antigen defined by site-directed spin labeling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1868-1873

  Jennings Antipov, Laura D ^a,c   Song, Likai ^a,b,d   Collier, R John ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; LETHAL GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPIN LABELING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPIN LABELS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952142373     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018965108     Document Type: Article

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