Secondary Structure Preferences of the Anthrax Toxin Protective Antigen Translocase
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Blocking anthrax lethal toxin at the protective antigen channel by using structure-inspired drug design.
Bacillus anthracis secretes three polypeptides: protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor (EF), which interact at the surface of mammalian cells to form toxic complexes. LF and EF are enzymes that target substrates within the cytosol; PA provides a heptameric pore to facilitate LF and EF transport into the cytosol. Other than administration of antibiotics shortly after expos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0022-2836
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2017.01.015