Bacterial Toxin Research Citations

… Mice were given 200 uL rapamycin. ip at 0.4 mg/mL every 2 days during the treatment window, as described. Diphtheria toxin (DT) was purchased from List Biological Laboratories. (Campbell, CA; cat no. 150) and given to mice ip on days -8, -6, and -4 at a dose …

• Product #150 – Diphtheria Toxin, Unnicked, from Corynebacterium diphtheriae

DTx Injection:

20 ng per gram body weight of DTx (List Biological Laboratories, USA) was injected intraperitoneally into Zbtb46-DTRWT chimeric mice 1 day prior to RV inoculation and DTx injections were then repeated every day for short-term experiments (mice were sacrificed at 7 d.p.i for T-cell assay) or every other day for long-term experiments (mice were sacrificed at 28 d.p.i. for ELISA assays). …

• Product #150 –  Diphtheria Toxin, Unnicked, from Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Flow cytometry and cell sorting:

KI-hiPS cells were differentiated for 1012 weeks, dissociated with Accutase (Thermo Fisher Scientific) for 6090 min at 37 C, harvested through a 40 m cell strainer (BD Biosciences, San Diego, CA), and collected into keratinocyte culture medium (KCM; a 3:1 mix of DMEM without glutamine and Nutrient Mixture F-12 Ham; Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum (Japan Bio Serum, Hiroshima, Japan), 0.4 g/mL hydrocortisone succinate (Wako), 2 nM 3,3,5-triiodo-l-thyronine sodium salt (MP Biomedicals, Santa Ana, CA), 1 nM cholera toxin (List Biological Laboratory, Campbell, CA), …

• Product #100B – Cholera Toxin (AZIDE-FREE) from Vibrio cholerae

… The mice additionally received 200 ng Pertussis toxin (PTx, List Biological Laboratories, Inc.) intraperitoneally at the time of immunization and 48 h later. Intravital FLIM was performed on day 15 after immunization, ie at the peak of disease. …

Author did not specify which List Labs Pertussis Toxin was utilized. List Labs provides the following Pertussis Toxin products:
• Product #180 – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis, Lyophilized in Buffer
• Product #181 – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis, Lyophilized (Salt-Free)
• Product #179A – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis (in Glycerol)

… Briefly, 10 ng STa-ovalbumin conjugates (provided by Dr. DC Robertson at Kansas State University) was used to coat each well of Costar plates (Corning Inc., Corning, NY) to titrate anti-STa antibodies, and 100 ng LT (List Biological Laboratories, Inc., Campbell, CA) was coated to each well of 2HB plates (Thermo Scientific, Rochester, NY) to titrate anti-LT antibodies. …

Lethal Toxin (LT) is PA + LF:

Author did not indicate which specific lethal factor was utilized.  List Labs provides Product #172 (Anthrax Lethal Factor (LF), Recombinant from B. anthracis) and Product #169 (Anthrax Lethal Factor (LF-A), Recombinant from B. anthracis Native Sequence).

• Product #171 – Anthrax Protective Antigen (PA), Recombinant from B. anthracis

… at 2 weeks after optic nerve injury by immunostaining with a GAP-43 antibody [1:2000; custom-made in sheep (Benowitz et al., 1988)] and at 6 weeks after optic nerve injury by immunostaining for the cholera toxin B fragment (CTB, 1% in 3 µl; List Biological), …

• Product #104 – Cholera Toxin B Subunit (Choleragenoid) from Vibrio cholerae in Low Salt

… Pertussis Toxin (250 ng/mL; Incubation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells with 100 ng/mL impaired G i protein activity [Lee et al., 2011]; List Biological Laboratories 

Author did not specify which List Labs Pertussis Toxin was utilized. List Labs provides the following Pertussis Toxin products:
• Product #180 – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis, Lyophilized in Buffer
• Product #181 – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis, Lyophilized (Salt-Free)
• Product #179A – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis (in Glycerol)

… In parallel to each immunization, 200ng of Bordetella pertussis toxin (List biological laboratories, inc., Campbell, CA, USA) was administrated by an intraperitoneal injection. …

Author did not specify which List Labs Pertussis Toxin was utilized. List Labs provides the following Pertussis Toxin products:
• Product #180 – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis, Lyophilized in Buffer
• Product #181 – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis, Lyophilized (Salt-Free)
• Product #179A – Pertussis Toxin from B. pertussis (in Glycerol)

Tolerance induction, sensitization and challenge:

To study oral tolerance induction prior to whey sensitization, mice received daily, for a period of 6 days, an oral gavage with … Next, mice were sensitized by means of weekly oral gavage with 20 mg whey protein (in 0.5 ml PBS) supplemented with 10 µg cholera toxin (CT; List Biological Laboratories, Inc. California, USA) as an adjuvant. Sham-sensitized control mice received 10 µg CT in 0.5 ml PBS. …

• Product #100B – Cholera Toxin (AZIDE-FREE) from Vibrio cholerae

Immunohistochemistry:

… Primary antibodies … CTB (goat, 1:4,000, List Biological Laboratories …

• Product #703 – Anti-Cholera Toxin B Subunit (Goat)