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Alternative Title:
Toxins (Basel)
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins9060193
Personal Author:
Kalb, Suzanne R. ; Baudys, Jakub ; Smith, Theresa J. ; Smith, Leonard A. ; Barr, John R. ;
Kalb, Suzanne R. ; Baudys, Jakub ; Smith, Theresa J. ; Smith, Leonard A. ; Barr, John R. ; Less -
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Botulism is a disease involving intoxication with botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), toxic proteins produced by Clostridium botulinum and other clostridia. The 150 kDa neurotoxin is produced in conjunction with other proteins to form the botulinum progenitor toxin complex (PTC), alternating in size from 300 kDa to 500 kDa. These progenitor complexes can be classified into hemagglutinin positive or hemagglutinin negative, depending on the ability of some of the neurotoxin-associated proteins (NAPs) to cause hemagglutination. The hemagglutinin positive progenitor toxin complex consists of BoNT, nontoxic non-hemagglutinin (NTNH), and three hemagglutinin proteins; HA-70, HA-33, and HA-17. Hemagglutinin negative progenitor toxin complexes contain BoNT and NTNH as the minimally functional PTC (M-PTC), but not the three hemagglutinin proteins. Interestingly, the genome of hemagglutinin negative progenitor toxin complexes comprises open reading frames (orfs) which encode for three proteins, but the existence of these proteins has not yet been extensively demonstrated. In this work, we demonstrate that these three proteins exist and form part of the PTC for hemagglutinin negative complexes. Several hemagglutinin negative strains producing BoNT/A, /E, and /F were found to contain the three open reading frame proteins. Additionally, several BoNT/A-containing bivalent strains were examined, and NAPs from both genes, including the open reading frame proteins, were associated with BoNT/A. The open reading frame encoded proteins are more easily removed from the botulinum complex than the hemagglutinin proteins, but are present in several BoNT/A and /F toxin preparations. These are not easily removed from the BoNT/E complex, however, and are present even in commercially-available purified BoNT/E complex.
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Botulinum Neurotoxin
Botulism
Protein Toxin
Proteomics
Toxin Complex

Source:
Toxins (Basel). 2017 ; 9(6).;
Pubmed ID:
28617306
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5488043
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
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CDC Public Access
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