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Bile and Unsaturated Fatty Acids Inhibit the Binding of Cholera Toxin and Escherichia coli Heat-Labile Enterotoxin to GM1 Receptor

Cholera toxin (CT) is an archetypal bacterial toxin that binds with a high affinity to the receptor ganglioside GM1 on the intestinal epithelial surface and that causes the severe watery diarrhea characteristic of the disease cholera. Blockage of the interaction of CT with the GM1 receptor is an att...

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Main Authors: Chatterjee, Arpita, Chowdhury, Rukhsana
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2223916/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17954701
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01009-07
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