An overview of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin

Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens

2018 • 730 citations

Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens

2010 • 593 citations

Pharmacology of bacterial toxins

1986 • 232 citations

PHARMACOLOGY OF BACTERIAL TOXINS.

1964 • 192 citations

The enterotoxin gene (cpe) of Clostridium perfringens can be chromosomal or plasmid‐borne

1995 • 185 citations

Comparison of Western immunoblots and gene detection assays for identification of potentially enterotoxigenic isolates of Clostridium perfringens

1994 • 180 citations

Cloning, nucleotide sequencing, and expression of the Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin gene in Escherichia coli

1993 • 140 citations

Localization of the receptor-binding region of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin utilizing cloned toxin fragments and synthetic peptides. The 30 C-terminal amino acids define a functional binding region

1991 • 104 citations

Toxins of Clostridium perfringens types A, B, C, D and E

1986 • 101 citations

Enterotoxigenic bacteria in the sudden infant death syndrome

1993 • 97 citations

Regulated expression of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in naturally cpe-negative type A, B, and C isolates of C. perfringens

1996 • 96 citations

Expression from the Clostridium perfringens cpe promoter in C. perfringens and Bacillus subtilis

1994 • 84 citations

Evidence that an approximately 50-kDa mammalian plasma membrane protein with receptor-like properties mediates the amphiphilicity of specifically bound Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin.

1994 • 80 citations

Divalent cation involvement in the action of Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin. Early events in enterotoxin action are divalent cation-independent.

1988 • 74 citations

Synthetic DNA probes for detection of enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains isolated from outbreaks of food poisoning

1990 • 70 citations

Histopathological effect of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in the rabbit ileum

1975 • 68 citations

Molecular cloning of the 3' half of the Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin gene and demonstration that this region encodes receptor-binding activity

1989 • 68 citations

Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin acts by producing small molecule permeability alterations in plasma membranes

1994 • 68 citations

Mapping of functional regions of Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin

1992 • 67 citations

Studies of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin action at different temperatures demonstrate a correlation between complex formation and cytotoxicity

1990 • 65 citations

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS ENTEROTOXIN: STRUCTURE, ACTION AND DETECTION

1991 • 52 citations

Clostridium perfringens type A cytotoxic-enterotoxin(s) as triggers for death in the sudden infant death syndrome: Development of a toxico-infection hypothesis

1993 • 51 citations

Preliminary evidence that Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin is present in a 160,000-Mr complex in mammalian membranes

1989 • 48 citations

A complex array of Hpr consensus DNA recognition sequences proximal to the enterotoxin gene in Clostridium perfringens type A

1994 • 46 citations

A recombinant C‐terminal toxin fragment provides evidence that membrane insertion is important for Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin cytotoxicity

1991 • 34 citations

Chymotrypsin treatment increases the activity of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin

1991 • 33 citations

A conjugated synthetic peptide corresponding to the C-terminal region of Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin elicits an enterotoxin-neutralizing antibody response in mice

1992 • 30 citations