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Bioinformatic discovery of a toxin family in Chryseobacterium piperi with sequence similarity to botulinum neurotoxins

Clostridial neurotoxins (CNTs), which include botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT), are the most potent toxins known to science and are the causative agents of botulism and tetanus, respectively. The evolutionary origins of CNTs and their relationships to other proteins remain...

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Autores principales: Mansfield, Michael James, Wentz, Travis Gwynn, Zhang, Sicai, Lee, Elliot Jeon, Dong, Min, Sharma, Shashi Kant, Doxey, Andrew Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30733520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37647-8