Endoproteinase Activity of Type A Botulinum Neurotoxin: Substrate Requirements and Activation by Serum Albumin
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Protein Journal
- Vol. 16 (1) , 19-26
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026386710428
Abstract
Type A botulinum neurotoxin, a zinc-dependent endoproteinase that selectively cleaves the neuronal protein SNAP-25, can also cleave relatively short peptides. We found that bovine and other serum...Keywords
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