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Fluorescence Study of Structural Properties of Cytolisin from the See Anemone Radianthus Macrodactylus

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Sea anemone cytolysins (RTX) are lethal polypeptides which act directly at membrane level. The primary mode of cytolytic polypeptides from the sea anemone Radianthus macrodactylus is their insertation into bilayers and the subsequent formation of “pores” which lead to cell lysis. They are hydrophilic but have hydrophobic domains that can insert and span across cell membranes, thus forming an ion channel. It is known (for a review see

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  1. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142292, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia

    S. Kuznetsova & V. Emelyanenko

  2. Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690025, Vladivostok, Russia

    M. Monastyrnaya

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    G. Zhadan & V. Shnyrov

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  1. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

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Kuznetsova, S., Emelyanenko, V., Monastyrnaya, M., Zhadan, G., Shnyrov, V. (1997). Fluorescence Study of Structural Properties of Cytolisin from the See Anemone Radianthus Macrodactylus. In: Carmona, P., Navarro, R., Hernanz, A. (eds) Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules: Modern Trends. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5622-6_23

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