Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Thermal Inactivation in Milk

Thermal inactivation of staphylococcal enterotoxins B and C.

Thermal inactivation profiles of staphylococcal enterotoxins B (SEB) and C (SEC) at 80, 100, and 121 C showed that SEC is more resistant than SEB to heat. After 24 h of incubation at 25 C, some reactivation (recovery of serological reactivity) occurred in toxins that had been inactivated by heat. If the toxin was stirred during heating, reactivation did not occur. An examination of the reactiva...

Neutralization of Staphylococcal enterotoxin B by aptamer

12 Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is a major virulence factor for 13 Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome (TSS). SEB activates a large subset of the T 14 lymphocytic population, releasing pro-inflammatory cytokines. Blocking 15 SEB-initiated toxicity may be an effective strategy for treating TSS. Using a 16 systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) process, we 17 iden...

Purification of Type B Staphylococcal Enterotoxin.

Frea, James I. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Elizabeth McCoy, and F. M. Strong. Purification of type B staphylococcal enterotoxin. J. Bacteriol. 86:1308-1313. 1963.-A procedure for the production and isolation of type B staphylococcal enterotoxin in yields up to 4 mg per liter of toxic culture is presented. Staphylococcus aureus S6 was grown in shake flask cultures at 37 C for 24 hr in a ...

A DNA Spiegelmer to staphylococcal enterotoxin B.

Bacterial staphylococcal enterotoxin B is involved in several severe disease patterns and it was therefore used as a target for the generation of biologically stable mirror-image oligonucleotide ligands, so called Spiegelmers. The toxin is a 28 kDa protein consisting of 239 amino acids. Since the full-length protein is not accessible to chemical peptide synthesis, a stable domain of 25 amino ac...

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B and Related Pyrogenic Toxins