Ultrasensitive detection of protein translocated through toxin pores in droplet-interface bilayers

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

Volumn 108, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 16577-16581

  Fischer, Audrey ^a   Holden, Matthew A ^b   Pentelute, Brad L ^a   Collier, R John ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEIN PA 63; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; DROPLET INTERFACE BILAYER SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIPID BILAYERS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80053639163     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113074108     Document Type: Article

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