Clostridium botulinum type A-virulome-gut interactions: A systems biology insight

Purification of Clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin.

production and crystallization of clostridium botulinum type a toxin

introduction: widespread medical usage of botulinum toxins has increased the need for the precise analysis of its biological activity. the aim of this study was production and crystallization of the botulinum type a toxins. methods: in this study, clostridium botulinum was grown and inoculated into the tripticase soya broth culture media, under anaerobic condition and toxin production was monit...

Molecular construction of Clostridium botulinum type A toxins.

Two Clostridium botulinum type A toxic fractions, named large (L) and medium (M) toxins, were eluted from Sephadex G-200. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation resolved L toxin (2.5 X 10(8) to 3.0 X 10(8) mean lethal doses per mg of N) into two fractions, 19S and 16S. The same procedure performed at pH 8resolved it into three fractions; the heavier two were both nontoxic and hemagglutinin pos...

Physiocochemical properties of crystalline Clostridium botulinum type A toxin.

Interest in the chemical nature and mode of action of bacterial toxins has been renewed by the simultaneously announced crystallization of botulinal (1) and tetanal toxins (2) and the recent purification of several toxoids (3-5). Of these, crystalline Clostridium botulinurn type A toxin alone has been submitted to an apparently complete elementary and amino acid analysis (6), as well as to prel...

Transdermal Delivery of Clostridium Botulinum Toxin Type a by Iontophoresis