单词 | cholera toxin |
释义 | > as lemmascholera toxin cholera toxin n. the toxin produced by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, a multimeric protein with two different types of subunit, one of which binds to a specific ganglioside on the small intestinal cell membrane, allowing the other to enter the cell and activate the enzyme adenylate cyclase and leading to the secretion of electrolytes and water which results in diarrhoea. ΚΠ 1904 Lancet 26 Nov. 1481/1 (note) The earlier researches of R. Pfeiffer on the cholera toxin. 1951 S. N. De et al. in Jrnl. Pathol. & Bacteriol. 63 707 An experimental study of the action of cholera toxin. 1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iv. 420 The term enterotoxin is used for a group of exotoxins, of which cholera toxin is the major example, which are produced by enteric organisms. 2006 S. Johnson Ghost Map 246 Mekalanos and Waldor discovered that the gene for cholera toxin is actually supplied by an outside source: a virus called CTX phage. < as lemmas |
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