Structural Determinants for Activity and Specificity of the Bacterial Toxin LlpA

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ghequire, Maarten G K ^a   Garcia Pino, Abel ^b,c   Lebbe, Eline K M ^a   Spaepen, Stijn ^a   Loris, Remy ^b,c   de Mot, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN LLPA; CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCAN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PENTASACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOCINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84877852331     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003199     Document Type: Article

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