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The A1 component then binds to the ribosome, disrupting protein synthesis. Stx-2 has been found to be about 400 times more toxic (as quantified by LD 50 in mice) than Stx-1. Gb3 is, for unknown reasons, present in greater amounts in renal epithelial tissues, to which the renal toxicity of Shiga toxin may be attributed.
Antibiotics that interfere with DNA synthesis, such as fluoroquinolones, have been shown to induce the Stx-bearing bacteriophage and cause increased production of toxins. [9] Attempts to block toxin production with antibacterials which target the ribosomal protein synthesis are conceptually more attractive.
In dcSTX there is a double bond between carbons 2 and 3, while there is a single bond in STX. This also results in that the double-bonded N to carbon number 3 in STX, is a single bound NH 2 in dcSTX. Another difference between decarbamoylsaxitoxin and saxitoxin is that the amino-carbonyl-oxy-methyl group at position 1 in STX, is only a CH 2 OH ...
Saxitoxin (STX) is a potent neurotoxin and the best-known paralytic shellfish toxin. Ingestion of saxitoxin by humans, usually by consumption of shellfish contaminated by toxic algal blooms , is responsible for the illness known as paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP).
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As part of the group of saxitoxins, the gonyautoxins have their structure based on the 2,6-diamino-4-methyl-pyrollo[1,2-c]-purin-10-ol skeleton (also known as the Saxitoxin-gonyautoxin skeleton). [2] The different molecules only differ from each other by their substituents, some of them only by a mere stereoisomerism such as GTX-2 and GTX-3.
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