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. 1982 Jun 1;203(3):775–778. doi: 10.1042/bj2030775

A circular-dichroism study of epidermolytic toxins A and B from Staphylococcus aureus.

C J Bailey, S R Martin, P M Bayley
PMCID: PMC1158295  PMID: 7115314

Abstract

The far-u.v. circular-dichroism spectra of the two epidermolytic toxins was analysed into fractional contributions of 0.09 helix and 0.46 beta-sheet to each toxin structure. Trifluoroethanol perturbation caused an initial increase in dichroic absorption at 205 nm and then a change characterized as a beta-sheet-to-alpha-helix transition. The intense near-u.v. spectra suggested that the toxins have unusually rigid, though different, aromatic-side-chain arrangements.

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