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Crystal structure of leucotoxin S component: new insight into the Staphylococcal beta-barrel pore-forming toxins.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 24 Sept 2004
Guillet Valérie, Roblin Pierre, Werner Sandra, Coraiola Manuela, Menestrina Gianfranco, Monteil Henri, Prévost Gilles, Mourey Lionel
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcal leucocidins and gamma-hemolysins (leucotoxins) are bi-component toxins that form lytic transmembrane pores. Their cytotoxic activities require the synergistic association of a class S component and a class F component, produced as water-soluble monomers that form hetero-oligomeric membrane-associated complexes. Strains that produce the Panton-Valentine leucocidin are clinically associated with...
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