- An
enterotoxin is
a protein exotoxin released by
a microorganism that
targets the intestines. They can be
chromosomally or
plasmid encoded. They are heat...
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Staphylococcus is
a genus of Gram-positive
bacteria in the
family Staphylococcaceae from the
order Bacillales.
Under the microscope, they
appear spherical...
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Cholera toxin (also
known as choleragen, CTX, CTx and CT) is
a potent enterotoxin produced by the
bacterium Vibrio cholerae which causes severe watery...
- the
field of
molecular biology,
enterotoxin type B, also
known as
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), is an
enterotoxin produced by the gram-positive bacteria...
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Clostridium enterotoxins are
toxins produced by
Clostridium species.
Clostridial species are one of the
major causes of food poisoning/gastrointestinal...
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symptoms of
toxic shock. Some
strains of E. coli
produce heat-stable
enterotoxins (ST),
which are
small peptides that are able to
withstand heat treatment...
- hemolytic-uremic syndrome. In contrast,
Shigella species may also
produce shigella enterotoxins,
which are the
cause of dysentery. The
toxin is
effective against small...
- preferences.
Crystal structures of the
enterotoxins reveals that they are compact,
ellipsoidal proteins sharing a characteristic two-domain
folding pattern...
- occur, but are less common.
Enterotoxins produced by ETEC
include heat-labile
enterotoxin (LT) and heat-stable
enterotoxin (ST). To date, no
licensed vaccines...
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identity >99.1%). The
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE)–producing
strain has been
identified to be
a small portion of the
overall C. perfringens...
