Anthrax lethal toxin exerts potent metabolic inhibition of the cardiovascular system

ABSTRACT Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax through a combination of bacterial infection and toxemia. As a major virulence factor of B. anthracis, anthrax lethal toxin (LT) is a zinc-dependent metalloproteinase, exerting its cytotoxicity through proteolytic cleavage of the mitogen-activated protein k...

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Main Authors: Jie Liu, Zehua Zuo, Rasem Fattah, Toren Finkel, Stephen H. Leppla, Shihui Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-12-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02160-24
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