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BOTULINUM TOXIN

Neurotoxin (50 kD, 7 distinct serotypes) produced by determined strains of Clostridium botulinum. The bacterium produces the toxin as a composite with a haemagglutinin that prevents toxin inactivation in the gut. Proteolysis in the body results in cleavage into two fragments A and B. B binds to gangliosides and may stimulate the endocytosis of fragment A. See: synaptobrevin, tetanus toxin. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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