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Genomic insights into the evolution and ecology of botulinum neurotoxins

18 Apr 2018

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Clostridial neurotoxins, which include botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and tetanus neurotoxins, have evolved a remarkably sophisticated structure and molecular mechanism fine-tuned for the targeting and cleavage of vertebrate neuron substrates leading to muscular paralysis. How and why did this toxin evolve? From which ancestral proteins are BoNTs derived? And what is, or was, the primary ecological role of BoNTs...

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PMID: 29684130
DOI: 10.1093/femspd/fty040

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