Botulinum neurotoxins exploit host digestive proteases to boost their oral toxicity via activating OrfXs/P47

Linfeng Gao, Maria Barbara Nowakowska, Katja Selby, Adina Przykopanski, Baohua Chen, Maren Krueger, Francois Paul Douillard, Kwok-ho Lam, Peng Chen, Ting Huang, Nigel Peter Minton, Martin Bernhard Dorner, Brigitte Gertrud Dorner, Andreas Rummel, Miia Lindström, Rongsheng Jin

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Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Structural and Molecular Biology
Number of pages36
ISSN1545-9993
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2025
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

  • C progenitor toxin
  • Nonproteolytic clostridium-botulinum
  • Crystal-structure
  • Escherichia-coli
  • Epithelial-cells
  • Gene clusters
  • Binding
  • Hemagglutinin
  • Reveals
  • Protein
  • 1182 Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology

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