The Majority of Typhoid Toxin-Positive
<i>Salmonella</i>
Serovars Encode ArtB, an Alternate Binding Subunit

A. Gaballa; R. A. Cheng; A. S. Harrand; A. R. Cohn; M. Wiedmann

doi:10.1128/mSphere.01255-20

mSphere (Feb 2021)

The Majority of Typhoid Toxin-Positive <i>Salmonella</i> Serovars Encode ArtB, an Alternate Binding Subunit

A. Gaballa,
R. A. Cheng,
A. S. Harrand,
A. R. Cohn,
M. Wiedmann

Affiliations

A. Gaballa: Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
R. A. Cheng: ORCiD; Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
A. S. Harrand: Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
A. R. Cohn: Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
M. Wiedmann: Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.01255-20
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 1

Abstract

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While previous reports had suggested that the typhoid toxin (TT) could potentially use ArtB as an alternate binding subunit, this was thought to play a minor role in the evolution and biology of the toxin. In this study, we establish that both TT genes and artBSalmonella entericaentericaSalmonella

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ISSN: 2379-5042 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
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