Bacterial Toxins Block Endothelial Wound Repair
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Bacterial toxins.
Many bacterial toxins are proteins, encoded by the bacterial chromosomal genes, plasmids or phages. Lysogenic phages form part of the chromosome. The toxins are usually liberated from the organism by lysis, but some are shed with outer membrane proteins in outer membrane vesicles. An important non-protein toxin is lipopolysaccharide or endotoxin, which is a constituent of the cell wall of gram ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1079-5642,1524-4636
DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.17.9.1623