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Heat-stable enterotoxin ST
Heat-stable enterotoxin ST
	structural characteristics for biological activity of heat-stable enterotoxin produced by enterotoxigenic escherichia coli: x-ray crystallography of weakly toxic and nontoxic analogs
Identifiers
Symbol	Enterotoxin_ST
Pfam	PF02048
InterPro	IPR001489
PROSITE	PDOC00246
SCOP2	1etn / SCOPe / SUPFAM
OPM superfamily	162
OPM protein	1etn
Pfam
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Pfam	structures / ECOD
PDB	RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum	structure summary

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Heat-stable enterotoxin B, secretory
Heat-stable enterotoxin B, secretory
	Structure of Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin b.
Identifiers
Symbol	STb_secrete
Pfam	PF09075
InterPro	IPR015160
PROSITE	PDOC00246
SCOP2	1ehs / SCOPe / SUPFAM
OPM superfamily	88
OPM protein	1ehs
Pfam
Available protein structures:
Pfam	structures / ECOD
PDB	RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum	structure summary

Heat stable E.coli enterotoxin 1

Identifiers

Symbol

Enterotoxin_HS1

Available protein structures:
Pfam	structures / ECOD
PDB	RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum	structure summary

Heat-stable enterotoxins (STs) are secretory peptides produced by some bacterial strains, such as enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli^[2] which are in general toxic to animals.

These peptides keep their 3D structure and remain active at temperatures as high as 100 °C.

Function

Different STs recognize distinct receptors on the surface of animal cells and thereby affect different intracellular signaling pathways. For example, STa enterotoxins bind and activate membrane-bound guanylate cyclase, which leads to the intracellular accumulation of cyclic GMP and downstream effects on several signaling pathways.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] These events lead to the loss of electrolytes and water from intestinal cells.

Heat-stable toxin 1 of entero-aggregative Escherichia coli (EAST1) is a small toxin. It is not, however, solely associated with entero-aggregative E. coli but also with many other diarrhoeic E. coli families. Some studies have established the role of EAST1 in some human outbreaks of diarrhoea. Isolates from farm animals have been shown to carry the astA gene coding for EAST1. However, the relation between the presence of EAST1 and disease is not conclusive.^[7]

Structure

The mature STa protein from Escherichia coli, which is the cause of acute diarrhoea in infants and travellers in developing countries, is a 19-residue peptide containing three disulphide bridges that are functionally important. STa contains an N-terminal signal peptide composed of two domains, Pre and Pro, involved in extracellular toxin release, and a core enterotoxigenic domain.^[8]

Members of heat-stable enterotoxin B family assume a helical secondary structure, with two alpha helices forming a disulfide cross-linked alpha-helical hairpin. The disulfide bonds are crucial for the toxic activity of the protein, and are required for maintenance of the tertiary structure, and subsequent interaction with the particulate form of guanylate cyclase, increasing cyclic GMP levels within the host intestinal epithelial cells.^[9]