Nectin-3 and shed forms of CSPG4 can serve as epithelial cell receptors for Clostridioides difficile TcdB
ABSTRACT Clostridioides difficile is a Gram-positive bacterium that can cause mild to severe diarrhea, inflammation, and colonic tissue damage in animal hosts. Symptoms of the disease can be attributed to the activity of toxin B (TcdB) secreted by C. difficile during infection. TcdB can engage multi...
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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2023-10-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01857-23 |