Isolation and functional characterization of the novel Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin A8 subtype.

Botulism is a severe neurological disease caused by the complex family of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT). Based on the different serotypes known today, a classification of serotype variants termed subtypes has been proposed according to sequence diversity and immunological properties. However, the rel...

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Main Authors: Skadi Kull, K Melanie Schulz, Jasmin Weisemann, Sebastian Kirchner, Tanja Schreiber, Alexander Bollenbach, P Wojtek Dabrowski, Andreas Nitsche, Suzanne R Kalb, Martin B Dorner, John R Barr, Andreas Rummel, Brigitte G Dorner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4320087?pdf=render