Altered pore-forming properties of proteolytically nicked staphylococcal alpha-toxin
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Pore Formation Mechanism of Staphylococcal Pore- forming Toxin
Y. Tanaka and M. Yao (Hokkaido Univ.) Pathogenic bacteria express pore-forming toxins (PFTs) to attack host cells. PFTs are expressed as soluble monomeric proteins, which assemble to prepore oligomer on the target cells. After forming prepore, conformational change occurs, and then the pore is formed. Although the crystal structures of monomer and pore have been determined, the detailed mechani...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50294-0