Insights into the evolutionary origins of clostridial neurotoxins from analysis of the Clostridium botulinum strain a neurotoxin gene cluster

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Doxey, Andrew C ^a   Lynch, Michael D J ^a   Müller, Kirsten M ^a   Meiering, Elizabeth M ^a   McConkey, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; FLAGELLIN; NEUROTOXIN; PROTEINASE; BOTULINUM TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; COLLAGENASES; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLIN; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ORDER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 58149094714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-316     Document Type: Article

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