Toxin Glycan Binding: Lectin Keys Unlocking Host and Tissue Specificity.

Cell Host Microbe

Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2020

In this issue of Cell Host and Microbe, Lee et al. define the glycan binding specificity of a variant of typhoid toxin produced by a non-typhoidal Salmonellae serotype. The authors elegantly demonstrate that tissue and host specificity of the toxin are related to specific glycan binding characteristics of the toxin.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2020.05.019DOI Listing

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