Structure of the food-poisoning clostridium perfringens enterotoxin reveals similarity to the aerolysin-like pore-forming toxins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 413, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-149

  Briggs, David C ^a,c   Naylor, Claire E ^a,d   Smedley III, James G ^b   Lukoyanova, Natalya ^a   Robertson, Susan ^b   Moss, David S ^a   McClane, Bruce A ^b   Basak, Ajit K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d KBI Biopharma Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotic associated diarrhea; claudin; intestine; tight junction; trimer

Indexed keywords

AEROLYSIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS ENTEROTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FOOD POISONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TOXIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 80053329693     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.07.066     Document Type: Article

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