Heat-labile enterotoxin: Beyond GM1 binding

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1445-1470

  Mudrak, Benjamin ^a   Kuehn, Meta J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood antigen; ETEC; GM1; Heat labile enterotoxin; Lipopolysaccharide

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; DSBA PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; HEAT LABILE ENTEROTOXIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; LINOLEIC ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP A; BLOOD GROUP B; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELTAB GENE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; G(M1) GANGLIOSIDE; GLYCOSIDES; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; TRITERPENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79952099318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2061445     Document Type: Article

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