Escherichia coli Toxin: Watch What You Eat!
(2006-2007 SMART Team)

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Here is a picture of Subunit A (left), or the active site, of the shiga toxin. On the right, there is E. coli after the glycosidase cleavage.

This here is the image of the B subunit, or the binding domain, of the E. coli threat.

E. coli uses the following pdb file: 1R4P.pdb

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Background images are from pdb files downloaded from the Protein Data Bank.
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do

The images are of catalase, single stranded DNA, and of insulin.
The pdb file numbers (Brookhaven Extension numbers) are 4BLC, 1EW1, and 2CEU.