From the sxtA4 Gene to Saxitoxin Production: What Controls the Variability Among Alexandrium minutum and Alexandrium pacificum Strains?

From the sxtA4 Gene to Saxitoxin Production: What Controls the Variability Among Alexandrium minutum and Alexandrium pacificum Strains?

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a human foodborne syndrome caused by the consumption of shellfish that accumulate paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs, saxitoxin group). In PST-producing dinoflagellates such as Alexandrium spp., toxin synthesis is encoded in the nuclear genome via a gene cluster...

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Main Authors: Solène Geffroy, Marc-Marie Lechat, Mickael Le Gac, Georges-Augustin Rovillon, Dominique Marie, Estelle Bigeard, Florent Malo, Zouher Amzil, Laure Guillou, Amandine M. N. Caruana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Alexandrium
saxitoxins
sxtA4
copy number variation
sxtA
expression
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.613199/full

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