S. aureus alpha-toxin monomer binding and heptamer formation in host cell membranes – Do they determine sensitivity of airway epithelial cells toward the toxin?

• Nils Möller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Sabine Ziesemer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Petra Hildebrandt,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Nadine Assenheimer,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Uwe Völker,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5689-3448

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• Jan-Peter Hildebrandt

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jph@uni-greifswald.de

  Affiliation Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-8481

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