Membrane assembly of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin pore complex

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1818, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1028-1038

  Hotze, Eileen M ^a   Tweten, Rodney K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CD59; Complement; Intermedilysin; Perforin; Perfringolysin; Pore

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CD59 ANTIGEN; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL DEPENDENT CYTOLYSIN; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; CYTOLYSIN; LECTINOLYSIN; LISTERIOLYSIN O; PERFORIN; PNEUMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL PH; CHANNEL GATING; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; HUMANS; PERFORIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84857650341     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.07.036     Document Type: Review

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