Phosphatidic acid-mediated binding and mammalian cell internalization of the Vibrio cholerae cytotoxin MakA.

Vibrio cholerae is a noninvasive intestinal pathogen extensively studied as the causative agent of the human disease cholera. Our recent work identified MakA as a potent virulence factor of V. cholerae in both Caenorhabditis elegans and zebrafish, prompting us to investigate the potential contributi...

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Main Authors: Aftab Nadeem, Athar Alam, Eric Toh, Si Lhyam Myint, Zia Ur Rehman, Tao Liu, Marta Bally, Anna Arnqvist, Hui Wang, Jun Zhu, Karina Persson, Bernt Eric Uhlin, Sun Nyunt Wai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-03-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009414