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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Step-by-step maturation mechanism of the binary toxin pore revealed by cryo-EM analysis.

Tomohito Yamada, Ren Nakanishi, Yukihiko Sugita, Yuki Ninomiya, Toru Yoshida, Takeshi Noda, Hideaki Tsuge

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tomohito YamadaDepartment of Frontier Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5828-3993
Ren NakanishiDepartment of Frontier Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan.
Yukihiko SugitaLaboratory of Ultrastructural Virology, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6861-4840
Yuki NinomiyaDepartment of Frontier Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan.ORCID 0009-0008-6238-1423
Toru YoshidaDepartment of Frontier Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1384-2210
Takeshi NodaLaboratory of Ultrastructural Virology, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0658-4663
Hideaki TsugeDepartment of Frontier Life Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0166-9163

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) 2366MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 21H02452MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 21J13410MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 24K01993
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Abstract

Membrane pore-forming proteins (PFPs) form ring-shaped membrane-translocating oligomers on membranes, contributing to infection, immunity, and cell death functions. Binary toxins produced by some bacteria consist of an enzymatic component that acts as a toxin and a membrane-binding component that forms a pore that delivers the enzymatic component into target cells. Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) has advanced our understanding of these translocation mechanisms by revealing several binary toxin complexes' structures. However, the mechanisms underlying the initial pore formation remain unclear. We determined the structures of several oligomeric forms of the membrane-binding component Ib of the iota toxin from

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Bacterial ToxinsClostridium perfringensPore Forming Cytotoxic ProteinsADP Ribose TransferasesCell MembraneCryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationADP Ribose TransferasesBacterial Toxinsiota toxin, Clostridium perfringensPore Forming Cytotoxic Proteinsbinary toxincryo-EMporepore maturation

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PMID42804625
PMCPMC13643166

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