Article
Genetic variation and cross-reactivity of Clostridium septicum alpha-toxin.
Veterinary microbiology - 16 Apr 2006
Amimoto Katsuhiko, Sasaki Yoshimasa, Fukuyama Shin-ichi, Tamura Yutaka
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium septicum alpha-toxin genes were sequenced with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products amplified from DNAs of 25 C. septicum strains, and were classified into 10 patterns. Alpha-toxins were purified from the culture supernatant of four C. septicum strains (strains No. 44, Kagoshima 8, Mie and Tokachi) which were specially chosen from patterns of the deduced amino acid sequences. The molecular...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antitoxins
- Bacterial Toxins
- Base Sequence
- Cattle
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Clostridium septicum
- Cross Reactions
- DNA Primers
- Genetic Variation
- Lethal Dose 50
- Male
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neutralization Tests
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
