Heat-labile enterotoxin alpha chain | |||||||||
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![]() cholera holotoxin, crystal form 1 | |||||||||
Identifiers | |||||||||
Symbol | Enterotoxin_a | ||||||||
Pfam | PF01375 | ||||||||
Pfam clan | CL0084 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR001144 | ||||||||
SCOP2 | 1lts / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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Heat-labile enterotoxin beta chain | |||||||||
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![]() cholera toxin b-pentamer complexed with metanitrophenyl-alpha-d-galactose | |||||||||
Identifiers | |||||||||
Symbol | Enterotoxin_b | ||||||||
Pfam | PF01376 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR001835 | ||||||||
SCOP2 | 1lts / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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Type II heat-labile enterotoxin , B subunit (LT-IIB) | |||||||||
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![]() escherichia coli heat labile enterotoxin type iib b-pentamer | |||||||||
Identifiers | |||||||||
Symbol | LT-IIB | ||||||||
Pfam | PF06453 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR010503 | ||||||||
SCOP2 | 1tii / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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In molecular biology, the heat-labile enterotoxin family includes Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin (Elt or LT) and cholera toxin (Ctx) secreted by Vibrio cholerae.
lt is so named because it is inactivated at high temperatures.[1]