Structural organization of membrane-inserted hexamers formed by Helicobacter pylori VacA toxin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 22-36

  Pyburn, Tasia M ^a   Foegeding, Nora J ^a   González Rivera, Christian ^a,c   McDonald, Nathan A ^a   Gould, Kathleen L ^a   Cover, Timothy L ^a,b   Ohi, Melanie D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN P33; PROTEIN P55; PROTEIN VARIANT; VACUOLATING TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 84988464628     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13443     Document Type: Article

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