A syringe-like injection mechanism in Photorhabdus luminescens toxins

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7442, 2013, Pages 520-523

  Gatsogiannis, Christos ^a   Lang, Alexander E ^b   Meusch, Dominic ^a   Pfaumann, Vanda ^b   Hofnagel, Oliver ^a   Benz, Roland ^c   Aktories, Klaus ^b   Raunser, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; TOXIN COMPLEX C; TOXIN COMPLEX DA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; PATHOGEN; PHAGOTROPHY; PROTEIN; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXIN; TRANSLOCATION; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIFE CYCLE; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTORHABDUS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 84875620662     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11987     Document Type: Article

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