Botulinum Neurotoxins: Still a Privilege of Clostridia?

Michel R. Popoff (1)

1 Toxines bactériennes - Bacterial Toxins

Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are potent bacterial toxins mostly produced by genetically diverse clostridial strains. Recently, BoNT variants have been reported in non-clostridial strains. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Zhang et al. (2018) describe a novel BoNT in Entecoccus faecium.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Microbiologie et Parasitologie; Bactériologie; Biologie cellulaire; Organisation et fonctions cellulaires [q-bio.SC]; Interactions cellulaires [q-bio.CB]

Michel R. Popoff. Botulinum Neurotoxins: Still a Privilege of Clostridia?. Cell Host and Microbe, 2018, 23 (2), pp.145-146. ⟨10.1016/j.chom.2018.01.014⟩. ⟨pasteur-02453277⟩