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SUBMITTER: Geiger T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6996933 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geiger Tobias T Lara-Tejero Maria M Xiong Yong Y Galán Jorge E JE
eLife 20200120
Typhoid toxin is a virulence factor for the bacterial pathogen <i>Salmonella</i> Typhi, which causes typhoid fever in humans. After its synthesis by intracellular bacteria, typhoid toxin is secreted into the lumen of the <i>Salmonella</i>-containing vacuole by a secretion mechanism strictly dependent on TtsA, a specific muramidase that facilitates toxin transport through the peptidoglycan layer. Here we show that substrate recognition by TtsA depends on a discrete domain within its carboxy termi ...[more]