Cross-Reactivity of Anthrax and C2 Toxin: Protective Antigen Promotes the Uptake of Botulinum C2I Toxin into Human Endothelial Cells

• Angelika Kronhardt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Angelika Kronhardt, Monica Rolando

  Affiliation Rudolf-Virchow-Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Monica Rolando ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Angelika Kronhardt, Monica Rolando

  Affiliations Inserm, U895, Toxines Microbiennes dans la Relation Hôte-Pathogènes, Batiment Archimed, Nice, France, Faculté de Médecine, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 50, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

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• Christoph Beitzinger,

  Affiliation Rudolf-Virchow-Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Caroline Stefani,

  Affiliation Inserm, U895, Toxines Microbiennes dans la Relation Hôte-Pathogènes, Batiment Archimed, Nice, France

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• Michael Leuber,

  Affiliation Rudolf-Virchow-Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Gilles Flatau,

  Affiliation Inserm, U895, Toxines Microbiennes dans la Relation Hôte-Pathogènes, Batiment Archimed, Nice, France

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• Michel R. Popoff,

  Affiliation Unité des Bactéries Anaerobies et Toxines, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Roland Benz ,

  * E-mail: Emmanuel.Lemichez@unice.fr (EL); r.benz@jacobs-university.de (RB)

  Affiliations Rudolf-Virchow-Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Emmanuel Lemichez

  * E-mail: Emmanuel.Lemichez@unice.fr (EL); r.benz@jacobs-university.de (RB)

  Affiliations Inserm, U895, Toxines Microbiennes dans la Relation Hôte-Pathogènes, Batiment Archimed, Nice, France, Faculté de Médecine, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 50, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, Laboratoire central de bactériologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France

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