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Comparison of the catalytic properties of the botulinum neurotoxin subtypes A1 and A5.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Dec 2013
Wang Dongxia, Krilich Joan, Pellett Sabine, Baudys Jakub, Tepp William H, Barr John R, Johnson Eric A, Kalb Suzanne R
Abstract excerpt
Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) cause the life-threatening disease botulism through the inhibition of neurotransmitter release by cleaving essential SNARE proteins. There are seven serologically distinctive types of BoNTs and many subtypes within a serotype have been identified. BoNT/A5 is a recently discovered subtype of type A botulinum neurotoxin which possesses a very high degree of sequence...
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