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. 1982 Oct;152(1):506–509. doi: 10.1128/jb.152.1.506-509.1982

Sequence analysis of the heat-labile enterotoxin subunit B gene originating in human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

T Yamamoto, T Tamura, M Ryoji, A Kaji, T Yokota, T Takano
PMCID: PMC221452  PMID: 6749816

Abstract

In this study, we determined the amino-terminal coding sequence, covering the signal peptide and the amino-terminus of the mature peptide, of the heat-labile enterotoxin subunit B (LT-B) gene originating in human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Neither the signal sequence nor the amino-terminal sequence of the mature LT-B was identical to those sequences from porcine enterotoxigenic E. coli, but there was an extensive homology.

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