Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans leukotoxin utilizes a cholesterol recognition/amino acid consensus site for membrane association

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 32, 2013, Pages 23607-23621

  Brown, Angela C ^a   Balashova, Nataliya V ^b   Epand, Richard M ^c   Epand, Raquel F ^c   Bragin, Alvina ^d   Kachlany, Scott C ^b   Walters, Michael J ^a   Du, Yurong ^a   Boesze Battaglia, Kathleen ^d   Lally, Edward T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAC MOTIF; INTEGRIN RECEPTORS; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATION;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

CHOLESTEROL;

AMINO ACID; CHOLESTEROL; LEUKOTOXIN;

AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHOLESTEROL; INTEGRINS; LIPID RAFT; LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHOLESTEROL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; PASTEURELLACEAE; PROTEIN BINDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84881399993     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.486654     Document Type: Article

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