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Molecular structure reveals how botulinum toxin attaches to nerve cells
12-13-2006 · EurekAlert!A group of researchers, funded in part through two of NIAID's Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, has provided a rare atomic glimpse of the initial step one of botulinu's toxins takes to gain entry into human neurons. In an advanced online publication of the journal Nature, the scientists show structurally how botulinum neurotoxin B (one of seven toxins the bacterium produces) recognizes receptors on the surface of human neurons.
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