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1: FEMS Microbiol Lett. 1992 Sep 15;75(2-3):225-30.Links

Sequence of the gene encoding type F neurotoxin of Clostridium botulinum.

Department of Microbiology, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Reading, UK.

Primers designed to conserved regions of botulinum and tetanus clostridial toxins were used to amplify DNA fragments from non-proteolytic Clostridium botulinum type F (202F) DNA using polymerase chain reaction technology. The fragments were cloned and the complete nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding type F toxin determined. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence demonstrated the presence of an open frame encoding a protein of 1274 amino acids, similar to other botulinum neurotoxins. Upstream of the toxin gene is the end of an open reading frame which encodes the C-terminus of a protein with homology to non-toxic-non-hemagglutinin component of type C progenitor toxin.

PMID: 1398040 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]