Variant toxin B and a functional toxin A produced by Clostridium difficile C34

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-176

  Mehlig, Markus ^a   Moos, Michael ^a   Braun, Veit ^a   Kalt, Bettina ^a   Mahony, David E ^b   Von Eichel Streiber, Christoph ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytopathic effect; Glucosylation; GTPase; Large clostridial cytotoxin; R Ras; Rho

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; CYTOTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAS PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DIARRHEA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; INTOXICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CRICETINAE; CYTOTOXINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROTOXINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SKIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035338158     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00143-4     Document Type: Article

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