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

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