A neurotoxin that specifically targets Anopheles mosquitoes

oleh: Estefania Contreras, Geoffrey Masuyer, Nadia Qureshi, Swati Chawla, Harpal S. Dhillon, Han Lim Lee, Jianwu Chen, Pål Stenmark, Sarjeet S. Gill

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-06-01

Deskripsi

So far identified clostridial neurotoxins target vertebrates. Here, Contreras et al. isolate the clostridial-like neurotoxin PMP1 from Paraclostridium bifermentans strains and show that it selectively targets anopheline mosquitoes by targeting mosquito syntaxin.