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Alpha-toxin has been shown to play a role in pathogenesis of disease, as hly knockout strains show reductions in invasiveness and virulence. [2] The dosage of toxin can result in two different modes of activity. Low concentrations of toxin bind to specific, but unidentified, cell surface receptors and form the heptameric pores.
Alpha-hemolysin from uropathogenic E. coli produces extra-intestinal infections and can cause cystitis, pyelonephritis, and sepsis. Alpha-hemolysin from Staphylococcus aureus can cause severe diseases, such as pneumonia. Aerolysin from Aeromonas sobria infects the intestinal tract, but it might also cause sepsis and meningitis.
α-Hemolysin from S.aureus. Pore-forming proteins (PFTs, also known as pore-forming toxins) are usually produced by bacteria, and include a number of protein exotoxins but may also be produced by other organisms such as apple snails that produce perivitellin-2 [1] [2] or earthworms, who produce lysenin.
When alpha-hemolysis (α-hemolysis) is present, the agar under the colony is light and greenish. Streptococcus pneumoniae and a group of oral streptococci ( Streptococcus viridans or viridans streptococci) display alpha-hemolysis.
Phospholipase C (EC 3.1.4.3, lipophosphodiesterase I, Clostridium welchii α-toxin, Clostridium oedematiens β- and γ-toxins, lipophosphodiesterase C, phosphatidase C, heat-labile hemolysin, α-toxin) is an enzyme with systematic name phosphatidylcholine cholinephosphohydrolase.
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The toxin is a 1706 residue-long polypeptide that consists of an N-terminal ~400 residue-long adenylate cyclase (AC) enzyme that is linked to a characteristic RTX hemolysin (Hly) moiety of ~1300 residues. This Hly moiety itself consists of four functional subdomains, comprising: (i) a hydrophobic pore-forming domain ; (ii) an activation domain ...