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Tyrosine72 residue at the bottom of rim domain in LukF crucial for the sequential binding of the staphylococcal gamma-hemolysin to human erythrocytes.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 1 Dec 2000
Yokota K, Kamio Y
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcal bi-component cytotoxins, leukocidin (Luk), Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL), and gamma-hemolysin (Hlg) consist of LukF and LukS, LukF-PV and LukS-PV, and LukF and Hlg2, respectively, and Luk and Hlg share LukF. LukF-PV can not substitute for LukF for Hlg, despite 73% identity in amino acid sequence and close similarity in the 3-dimensional structure between them. Here, we demonstrated that the...
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