| Literature DB >> 8679691 |
K Moriishi1, M Koura, N Abe, N Fujii, Y Fujinaga, K Inoue, K Ogumad.
Abstract
We isolated the gene encoding a botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) of 1285 amino acids with a molecular weight of 147,364 from the toxigenic bacteriophage d-sA of Clostridium botulinum type D strain South African (Dsa). The BoNT of Dsa (BoNT/Dsa) is composed of three regions on the basis of the homology to BoNT types C1 (BoNT/C1) and D (BoNT/D). The N-terminal (Met-1 to Val-522) and the C-terminal regions (Trp-945 to Glu-1285) have high identity to corresponding regions of BoNT/D (96% identity) and BoNT/C1 (74% identity), respectively. The core region (Pro-523 to Lys-944) is common to three toxins (83% to 92% identity). These results suggest that neurotoxins produced from Clostridium botulinum types C and D are composed in a mosaic-like fashion.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8679691 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(96)00006-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta ISSN: 0006-3002