Heat-labile enterotoxin family

Heat-labile enterotoxin alpha chain
cholera holotoxin, crystal form 1
Identifiers
SymbolEnterotoxin_a
PfamPF01375
Pfam clanCL0084
InterProIPR001144
SCOP21lts / SCOPe / SUPFAM
Available protein structures:
Pfam  structures / ECOD  
PDBRCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsumstructure summary
Heat-labile enterotoxin beta chain
cholera toxin b-pentamer complexed with metanitrophenyl-alpha-d-galactose
Identifiers
SymbolEnterotoxin_b
PfamPF01376
InterProIPR001835
SCOP21lts / SCOPe / SUPFAM
Available protein structures:
Pfam  structures / ECOD  
PDBRCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsumstructure summary
Type II heat-labile enterotoxin , B subunit (LT-IIB)
escherichia coli heat labile enterotoxin type iib b-pentamer
Identifiers
SymbolLT-IIB
PfamPF06453
InterProIPR010503
SCOP21tii / SCOPe / SUPFAM
Available protein structures:
Pfam  structures / ECOD  
PDBRCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsumstructure summary

In molecular biology, the heat-labile enterotoxin family includes Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (Elt or LT) and cholera toxin (Ctx) secreted by Vibrio cholerae.

lt is so named because it is inactivated at high temperatures.[1]

  1. ^ Glenn GM, Flyer DC, Ellingsworth LR, et al. (October 2007). "Transcutaneous immunization with heat-labile enterotoxin: development of a needle-free vaccine patch". Expert Rev Vaccines. 6 (5): 809–19. doi:10.1586/14760584.6.5.809. PMID 17931160. S2CID 38106206.