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review article
Adventures of a pore-forming toxin at the target cell surface
The past three years have shed light on how the pore-forming toxin aerolysin binds to its target cell and then hijacks cellular devices to promote its own polymerization and pore formation. This selective permeabilization of the plasma membrane has unexpected intracellular consequences that might explain the importance of aerolysin in Aeromonas pathogenicity
Type
review article
Authors
Publication date
2000
Published in
Volume
8
Issue
4
Start page
168
End page
172
Note
Author address: Dept of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 30 quai E. Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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February 2, 2009
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