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cholera toxin

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cholera toxin
Infectious disease A heat-sensitive multimeric enterotoxin produced by Vibrio cholera, which transfers ADP-ribose to a G protein, locking adenyl cyclase in an 'on' position by ADP ribosylation of a Gs protein


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However, he notes that the Japanese researchers tested the new vaccine by exposing mice to cholera toxin but not to live V.
The fatal effects of the disease are mainly due to the cholera toxin produced by specific strains of Vibrio cholerae.
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