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Exotoxin

Exotoxin

(Science: protein) toxin released from gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria as opposed to endotoxins that form part of the cell wall.

Examples are cholera, pertussis and diphtheria toxins. Usually specific and highly toxic.


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The Fiber Disease

... certain tumors. Then early in 2000, National Cancer Institute researchers confirmed that an immunotoxin made from a truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin was cytotoxic to malignant B-cells taken from patients with hairy cell leukemia. A second clinic trial at the Universitaet zu Koeln in Germany ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:16 am
 
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lysogeny

Um, I've heard about it also...but still cloudy in my mind...it's about endotoxin and exotoxin which is programmed by viruses... Oh, more addition, in Lysogeny phase, virus also combine their gene with the host's gene...and when it's time for the host to do mitosis ...

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by victor
Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: lysogeny
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