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Self-association of the transmembrane domain of an anthrax toxin receptor.
Journal of molecular biology - 30 Jun 2006
Go Mandy Y, Kim Sanguk, Partridge Anthony W, Melnyk Roman A, Rath Arianna, Deber Charles M, Mogridge Jeremy
Abstract excerpt
Protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF) and edema factor (EF) are secreted individually by Bacillus anthracis. These components of anthrax toxin must then assemble into complexes to intoxicate mammalian cells. Toxin assembly initiates when molecules of PA bind mammalian receptors ANTXR1/2 and are cleaved by surface proteases into 20 kDa and 63 kDa fragments. After PA20 dissociates, receptor-bound PA63...
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