The enterococcal cytolysin is a two-component lantibiotic made up of the post-translationally modified peptides CylL L ″ and CylL S ″. It is produced by many clinical isolates of Enterococcus ...

Enterococcus faecalis contain a toxin called cytolysin, which is found in roughly 50 percent of isolates that cause post-operative intraocular infections seen in the United States. In recent years ...

The new findings, reported in Nature Chemical Biology, should help scientists find new ways to target the enterococcal cytolysin protein, a “virulence factor that is associated with acute infection in ...

The cytolysin A toxin is secreted by E. coli,Shigella and Salmonella. The toxin secreted by E. coli bacteria is water-soluble and binds to the cell membrane. The binding of the water-soluble toxin ...