Abstract:
:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), produced by various Clostridium strains, are a family of potent bacterial toxins and potential bioterrorism agents. Here we report that an Enterococcus faecium strain isolated from cow feces carries a BoNT-like toxin, designated BoNT/En. It cleaves both VAMP2 and SNAP-25, proteins that mediate synaptic vesicle exocytosis in neurons, at sites distinct from known BoNT cleavage sites on these two proteins. Comparative genomic analysis determines that the E. faecium strain carrying BoNT/En is a commensal type and that the BoNT/En gene is located within a typical BoNT gene cluster on a 206 kb putatively conjugative plasmid. Although the host species targeted by BoNT/En remains to be determined, these findings establish an extended member of BoNTs and demonstrate the capability of E. faecium, a commensal organism ubiquitous in humans and animals and a leading cause of hospital-acquired multi-drug-resistant (MDR) infections, to horizontally acquire, and possibly disseminate, a unique BoNT gene cluster.
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Cell Host Microbejournal_title
Cell host & microbeauthors
Zhang S,Lebreton F,Mansfield MJ,Miyashita SI,Zhang J,Schwartzman JA,Tao L,Masuyer G,Martínez-Carranza M,Stenmark P,Gilmore MS,Doxey AC,Dong Mdoi
10.1016/j.chom.2017.12.018subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-02-14 00:00:00pages
169-176.e6issue
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1931-3128issn
1934-6069pii
S1931-3128(17)30554-1journal_volume
23pub_type
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