Toxin A
BE0010938ProteinPeptoclostridium difficiletcdA
Toxin A Precursor of a cytotoxin that targets and disrupts the colonic epithelium, inducing the host inflammatory and innate immune responses and resulting in diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis (PubMed:20844489). It is acted on by 2 drugs in DrugBank.
- Gene name
- tcdA
- UniProtKB entry
- P16154Swiss-Prot
- Cellular location
- Secreted
- Residues / weight
- 2,710 residues · 308,053 Da
- Also known as
- 3.4.22.- · toxA
Resolves to
Drugs
What you can answer from here — as of November 01, 2023
Which approved drugs act on Toxin A, how selective are they, and which programs against it are still in active trials?
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