The assembly dynamics of the cytolytic pore toxin ClyA

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Benke, Stephan ^a   Roderer, Daniel ^b   Wunderlich, Bengt ^a   Nettels, Daniel ^a   Glockshuber, Rudi ^b   Schuler, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN A TOXIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DODECYL MALTOPYRANOSIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; HLYE PROTEIN, E COLI; MALTOSE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

CELL ORGANELLE; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REACTION TIME; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TARGET CELL; UNCERTAINTY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEMOLYSIS; HORSE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TOXICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HORSES; KINETICS; MALTOSE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84923171592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7198     Document Type: Article

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