The Bacillus cereus Hbl and Nhe Tripartite Enterotoxin Components Assemble Sequentially on the Surface of Target Cells and Are Not Interchangeable

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Sastalla, Inka ^a   Fattah, Rasem ^a   Coppage, Nicole ^a   Nandy, Poulomi ^a   Crown, Devorah ^a   Pomerantsev, Andrei P ^a   Leppla, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN HBL; ENTEROTOXIN NHE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURFACE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HBL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NHE GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84885733644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076955     Document Type: Article

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