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Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins

"Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Proteins secreted from an organism which form membrane-spanning pores in target cells to destroy them. This is in contrast to PORINS and MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS that function within the synthesizing organism and COMPLEMENT immune proteins. These pore forming cytotoxic proteins are a form of primitive cellular defense which are also found in human LYMPHOCYTES.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 96 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2003
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