Structural basis of complement membrane attack complex formation

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Serna, Marina ^a   Giles, Joanna L ^b   Morgan, B Paul ^b   Bubeck, Doryen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5B; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C6; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C7; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C8; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; CYTOLYSIN; PERFORIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; LIPID; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PORE SPACE; PROTEIN; STOICHIOMETRY;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHANNEL GATING; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIPID BILAYER; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COMPLEMENT C5B; COMPLEMENT C6; COMPLEMENT C7; COMPLEMENT C8; COMPLEMENT C9; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84956951205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10587     Document Type: Article

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