The advantage of this product over the native CTXB is that it has no traces of Vibrio cholera, and no contamination of the highly toxic Cholera toxin A subunit. This product is expressed in human HEK 293 cells as a C-terminally his-tagged protein with a calculated molecular mass of 13 kDa (amino acids Thr22-Asn124).
Synonyms: CTB; CTxB; Cholera enterotoxin B chain; Cholera enterotoxin gamma chain; Cholera enterotoxin subunit B; Choleragenoid; ToxB
Purity: >=95% (SDS-PAGE)
Storage: -20C
Application: Cholera Toxin B subunit has been used:
•for macrophage stimulation and i.p. injection in a study to determine the endotoxin sensitivity of Caspase-4.
•in transganglionic and retrograde tract-tracing method combined with dual-immunofluorescence histochemistry of adult rat Vmes neuron cells.