LT-IIc, a new member of the type II heat-labile enterotoxin family encoded by an Escherichia coli strain obtained from a nonmammalian host

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4705-4713

  Nawar, Hesham F ^a   King Lyons, Natalie D ^a   Hu, John C ^a   Pasek, Raymond C ^a   Connell, Terry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; GANGLIOSIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ADRENAL CELL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CHOLERA; CYTOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOWL; GENE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIRD DISEASES; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRUTHIONIFORMES;

EID: 78049421820     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00730-10     Document Type: Article

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