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1: Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1992 Feb 28;183(1):107-13.Click here to read Links

Sequences of the botulinal neurotoxin E derived from Clostridium botulinum type E (strain Beluga) and Clostridium butyricum (strains ATCC 43181 and ATCC 43755).

Poulet S, Hauser D, Quanz M, Niemann H, Popoff MR.

Unité des Antigènes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Recently, it has been shown that two Clostridium butyricum strains (ATCC 43181 and ATCC 43755), isolated from cases of infant botulism, produce a botulinal neurotoxin type E (BoNT/E). Here we have determined the nucleotide sequences of the BoNT/E genes of these two C. butyricum strains and from C. botulinum E strain Beluga. We show that the sequences of the BoNT/E genes from the two C. butyricum strains are identical and differ in only 64 positions resulting in 39 amino acid changes (97% identity at the amino acid level) from that derived from C. botulinum. Our data suggest a transfer of the BoNT/E gene from C. botulinum to the originally nontoxigenic C. butyricum strains.

PMID: 1543481 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]