Botulinum neurotoxin homologs in non-Clostridium species

FEBS Letters

Volumn 589, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 342-348

  Mansfield, Michael J ^a   Adams, Jeremy B ^a   Doxey, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Botulinum neurotoxin; Clostridial neurotoxin; Clostridium; Lateral gene transfer; Toxin; Weissella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN; TETANUS TOXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FERMENTATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WEISSELLA; WEISSELLA ORYZAE; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; WEISSELLA;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TETANUS TOXIN; WEISSELLA;

EID: 84921461702     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.12.018     Document Type: Article

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