aerolysin

There are still unmet needs in finding new technologies for biomedical diagnostic and industrial applications. A technology… Expand

Protein nanopores offer an inexpensive, label-free method of analysing single oligonucleotides. The sensitivity of the approach… Expand

Aerolysin has been used as a biological nanopore for studying peptides, proteins, and oligosaccharides in the past two decades… Expand

Lysenin from the coelomic fluid of the earthworm Eisenia fetida belongs to the aerolysin family of small β-pore-forming toxins… Expand

Owing to their pathogenical role and unique ability to exist both as soluble proteins and transmembrane complexes, pore-forming… Expand

Aerolysin is the founding member of a superfamily of β-pore-forming toxins whose pore structure is unknown. We have combined X… Expand

Protein export is an essential mechanism in living cells and exported proteins are usually translocated through a protein… Expand

A number of bacterial virulence factors have been observed to adopt structures similar to that of aerolysin, the principal toxin… Expand

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is caused by a somatic mutation in the gene PIGA, which encodes an enzyme essential for… Expand

Cells that are sensitive to the channel-forming toxin aerolysin contain surface glycoproteins that bind the toxin with high… Expand