Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin type A (scarlet fever toxin) is related to Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B

1 May 1986

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Vol. 203 (2) , 354-356
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00333979

Abstract

The nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin type A (SPE A) was determined by the dideoxy chain termination method. The first 30 residues of the translation product represented a hydrophobic signal peptide. The mature protein was 220 amino acids in length and had a molecular weight of 25,805. It has significant protein sequence homology with Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B but not with other proteins in the Dayhoff library.

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