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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
卷 181, 期 -, 页码 S156-S167出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/315554
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-14107] Funding Source: Medline
Diphtheria toxin (DT) is an extracellular protein of Corynebacterium diphtheriae that inhibits protein synthesis and kills susceptible cells. The gene that encodes DT (tax) is present in some corynephages, and DT is only produced by C. diphtheriae isolates Chat harbor tox(+) phages. The diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) is a global regulatory protein that uses Fe2+ as corepressor. Holo-DtxR represses production of DT, corynebacterial siderophore, heme oxygenase, and several other proteins. Diagnostic tests for toxinogenicity of C. diphtheriae are based either on immunoassays or on bioassays for DT. Molecular analysis of tox and dtxR genes in recent clinical isolates of C. diphtheriae revealed several tox alleles that encode identical DT proteins and multiple dtxR alleles that encode five variants of DtxR protein. Therefore, recent clinical isolates of C. diphtheriae produce a single antigenic type of DT, and diphtheria toroid continues to be an effective vaccine for immunization against diphtheria.
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