- An
enterotoxin is a
protein exotoxin released by a
microorganism that
targets the intestines. They can be
chromosomally or
plasmid encoded. They are heat...
- 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...
- In
molecular biology, the heat-labile
enterotoxin family includes Escherichia coli heat-labile
enterotoxin (Elt or LT) and
cholera toxin (Ctx) secreted...
- Heat-stable
enterotoxins (STs) are
secretory peptides produced by some
bacterial strains, such as
enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
which are in general...
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characteristic of
cholera infection. It is a
member of the heat-labile
enterotoxin family.
Robert Koch, a
German physician and microbiologist, was the first...
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highly conserved (sequence
identity >99.1%). The
Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE)–producing
strain has been
identified to be a
small portion of the...
- hemolytic-uremic syndrome. In contrast,
Shigella species may also
produce shigella enterotoxins,
which are the
cause of dysentery. The
toxin is
effective against small...
- biology, the
Bacillus haemolytic enterotoxin family of
proteins consists of
several Bacillus haemolytic enterotoxins (HblC, HblD, HblA, NheA, and NheB)...
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superantigens with
different binding preferences.
Crystal structures of the
enterotoxins reveals that they are compact,
ellipsoidal proteins sharing a characteristic...
