Mutational analysis of the Shiga toxin and Shiga-like toxin II enzymatic subunits
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Expression and purification of Shiga-like toxin II B subunits.
Shiga-like toxins (SLTs), which are produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli, are composed of enzymatically active A and B subunit multimers responsible for the toxin's binding. We have previously purified large amounts of the SLT-I B subunit by using a hyperexpression vector in Vibrio cholerae under the control of the trc promoter. In this study we examined various expression vectors to...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.6.3346-3350.1990