title: Channel-forming toxins: tales of transformation.
abstract: Channel-forming bacterial toxins undergo a series of remarkable changes in solubility, oligomerization state, structure and dynamics during the processes of membrane binding, assembly, membrane insertion and channel formation. Recent high-resolution crystal structures of channel-forming toxins, in both water-soluble and membrane-bound, channel-formed states, have brought a wealth of new information to bear on issues of structure, mechanism and function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. jeg52@columbia.edu
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gouaux
mesh_terms: D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000737:chemistry*; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D007473:Ion Channels