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Changing the Receptor Specificity of Anthrax Toxin

The actions of many bacterial toxins depend on their ability to bind to one or more cell-surface receptors. Anthrax toxin acts by a sequence of events that begins when the protective-antigen (PA) moiety of the toxin binds to either one of two cell-surface proteins, ANTXR1 and ANTXR2, and is proteoly...

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Autores principales: Mechaly, Adva, McCluskey, Andrew J., Collier, R. John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3569862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22550037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00088-12