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Cytotoxic activity of Bacillus anthracis protective antigen observed in a macrophage cell line overexpressing ANTXR1.
Cellular microbiology - 1 Aug 2006
Salles Isabelle I, Voth Daniel E, Ward Sabrina C, Averette Kathleen M, Tweten Rodney K, Bradley Kenneth A, Ballard Jimmy D
Abstract excerpt
Anthrax toxin protective antigen (PA) binds cell surface receptors (e.g. ANTXR1,2), forms heptameric pores, and translocates lethal factor (LF) or oedema factor (OF) into the cytoplasm of mammalian cells. In the current study, we sought to determine how receptor levels influence these events, by examining PA heptamer stability and related processes in macrophages that overexpress ANTXR1 (RAW 264.7ANTXR1). In...
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