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SUBMITTER: Chang SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5110213 | biostudies-other | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Chang Shu-Jung SJ Song Jeongmin J Galán Jorge E JE
Cell host & microbe 20161101 5
Typhoid toxin is an essential virulence factor of Salmonella Typhi, the cause of typhoid fever. Typhoid toxin is secreted into the lumen of Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV), after which it is packaged into vesicle carrier intermediates and released extracellularly through incompletely understood mechanisms. Following export, the toxin targets cells by interacting with human-specific Neu5Ac-terminated glycan receptors. We show that typhoid toxin is sorted from the SCV into vesicle carrier inte ...[more]