Engineered botulinum neurotoxin B with improved efficacy for targeting human receptors

Humans are less sensitive to the therapeutic effects of botulinum neurotoxin B (BoNT/B) than the animal models it is tested on due to differences between the human and the mouse receptors. Here, the authors engineer BoNT/B to improve its affinity to human receptors and enhance its therapeutic effica...

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Main Authors: Liang Tao, Lisheng Peng, Ronnie P.-A. Berntsson, Sai Man Liu, SunHyun Park, Feifan Yu, Christopher Boone, Shilpa Palan, Matthew Beard, Pierre-Etienne Chabrier, Pål Stenmark, Johannes Krupp, Min Dong
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c4a98be4d71a49939f118b13ff4c9b03
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