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ArticleScientific reports2024

Alpha-1 antitrypsin inhibits Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin, Corynebacterium diphtheriae diphtheria toxin and B. anthracis fusion toxin.

Stefanie Lietz, Lena-Marie Sokolowski, Holger Barth, Katharina Ernst

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Stefanie LietzInstitute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
Lena-Marie SokolowskiInstitute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
Holger BarthInstitute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany. holger.barth@uni-ulm.de.
Katharina ErnstInstitute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacology of Natural Products, Ulm University Medical Center, 89081, Ulm, Germany. katharina.ernst@alumni.uni-ulm.de.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 316249678-SFB1279
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterium Clostridium botulinum, well-known for producing botulinum neurotoxins, which cause the severe paralytic illness known as botulism, produces C2 toxin, a binary AB-toxin with ADP-ribosyltranferase activity. C2 toxin possesses two separate protein components, an enzymatically active A-component C2I and the binding and translocation B-component C2II. After proteolytic activation of C2II to C2IIa, the heptameric structure binds C2I and is taken up via receptor-mediated endocytosis into the target cells. Due to acidification of endosomes, the C2IIa/C2I complex undergoes conformational changes and consequently C2IIa forms a pore into the endosomal membrane and C2I can translocate into the cytoplasm, where it ADP-ribosylates G-actin, a key component of the cytoskeleton. This modification disrupts the actin cytoskeleton, resulting in the collapse of cytoskeleton and ultimately cell death. Here, we show that the serine-protease inhibitor α

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alpha 1-AntitrypsinBacterial ToxinsBotulinum ToxinsAnimalsAntigens, BacterialBacillus anthracisClostridium botulinumCorynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheria ToxinHumansalpha 1-Antitrypsinanthrax toxinAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsBotulinum Toxinsbotulinum toxin type CDiphtheria ToxinAnthrax toxinClostridium botulinum C2 toxinDiphtheria toxinDrug repurposingToxin inhibitorα1-Antitrypsin

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PMID39261531
PMCPMC11390955

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