The Use of Lipid-Binding Toxins to Study the Distribution and Dynamics of Sphingolipids and Cholesterol

Probes and Tags to Study Biomolecular Function: for Proteins, RNA, and Membranes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-71

  Ishitsuka, Reiko ^a   Kobayashi, Toshihide ^a  

^a Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin; Cholesterol; Lipid binding toxins; Lysenin; Perfringolysin; Sphingolipids

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955097955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527623099.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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