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The intermediate filament protein vimentin is essential for axonotrophic effects of Clostridium botulinum C3 exoenzyme.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Oct 2016
Adolf Andrej, Leondaritis George, Rohrbeck Astrid, Eickholt Britta Johanna, Just Ingo, Ahnert-Hilger Gudrun, Höltje Markus
Abstract excerpt
The type III intermediate filament protein vimentin was recently identified to mediate binding and uptake of Clostridium botulinum C3 exoenzyme (C3bot) in two cell lines. Here, we used primary neuronal cultures from vimentin knockout (Vim-/- ) mice to study the impact of vimentin on axonal growth and internalization of C3bot. In contrast to wild type, vimentin knockout neurons were insensitive to C3bot....
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