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SUBMITTER: Mukhopadhyay S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5367627 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mukhopadhyay Somshuvra S Linstedt Adam D AD
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120101 6066
Infections with Shiga toxin (STx)-producing bacteria cause more than a million deaths each year and have no definitive treatment. To exert its cytotoxic effect, STx invades cells through retrograde membrane trafficking, escaping the lysosomal degradative pathway. We found that the widely available metal manganese (Mn(2+)) blocked endosome-to-Golgi trafficking of STx and caused its degradation in lysosomes. Mn(2+) targeted the cycling Golgi protein GPP130, which STx bound in control cells during ...[more]