Monday, July 4, 2016

BacterioFiles 258 - Transformed Toxin Translocates Treatments

This episode: Bacterial toxins could be modified to deliver life-saving proteins into neurons!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper:
Chen C, Przedpelski A, Tepp WH, Pellett S, Johnson EA, Barbieri JT. 2015. Heat-Labile Enterotoxin IIa, a Platform To Deliver Heterologous Proteins into Neurons. mBio 6:e00734-15.

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