Directly Observing the Lipid-Dependent Self-Assembly and Pore-Forming Mechanism of the Cytolytic Toxin Listeriolysin O

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6965-6973

  Mulvihill, Estefania ^a   Van Pee, Katharina ^b   Mari, Stefania A ^a   Müller, Daniel J ^a   Yildiz, Özkan ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain lipids; cholesterol dependent cytolysins (CDC); erythrocyte ghosts; phospholipids; pore forming toxins (PFT); Transmembrane pore formation

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIA; BINS; CHOLESTEROL; DYNAMICS; LIPIDS; METABOLITES; OLIGOMERS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PORE SIZE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ERYTHROCYTE GHOSTS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOLYSIN O; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; PORE FORMING MECHANISM; PORE FORMING TOXINS; TRANS-MEMBRANE PORES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; HLYA PROTEIN, LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIPID;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LIPIDS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84944382016     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02963     Document Type: Article

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