The sensing of membrane microdomains based on pore-forming toxins

Current Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 491-501

  Skocaj M ^a   Bakrac B ^a   Krizaj I ^a,b,c   Macek P ^a   Anderluh, G ^a,d   Sepcic K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins   (Slovenia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Equinatoxin; Fluorescent probe; Liquid ordered phase; Lysenin; Membrane microdomains; Membrane raft; Ostreolysin; Perfringolysin O; Sphingomyelin

Indexed keywords

CAVEOLIN 1; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CHOLESTEROL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN; DESMOCOLLIN; DESMOCOLLIN 2; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; EQUINATOXIN II; FLOTILLIN 1; GANGLIOSIDE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIPID; LYSENIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OSTREOLYSIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOOMBINANT LYSENIN; RHODAMINE; SPHINGOMYELIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINIA EQUINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EISENIA FETIDA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; LIPID RAFT; LIPID VESICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84878150466     PISSN: 09298673     EISSN: 1875533X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986713804910094     Document Type: Article

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