Publications by authors named "Travis Gwynn Wentz"
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- Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) from bacteria can cause lethal botulism in humans and animals, mainly through contaminated food consumption.
- Ensuring food safety is vital to prevent botulism, but there are few established guidelines for testing food products against these toxins.
- The study analyzed a mix of ten strains of BoNT-producing bacteria, finding that while some strains compete for growth, the combination still produced high levels of BoNTs.
Clostridial neurotoxins (CNTs), which include botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) and tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT), are the most potent toxins known to science and are the causative agents of botulism and tetanus, respectively. The evolutionary origins of CNTs and their relationships to other proteins remains an intriguing question. Here we present a large-scale bioinformatic screen for putative toxin genes in all currently available genomes.
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