Extracellular calcium reduction strongly increases the lytic capacity of pneumolysin from Streptococcus pneumoniae in brain tissue

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 930-936

  Wippel, Carolin ^a   Förtsch, Christina ^a   Hupp, Sabrina ^a   Maier, Elke ^a   Benz, Roland ^a   Ma, Jiangtao ^b   Mitchell, Timothy J ^b   Iliev, Asparouh I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PNEUMOLYSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; ION CONDUCTANCE; LIPID BILAYER; MACROGLIA; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80052215348     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir434     Document Type: Article

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