Bacterial Toxin Research Citations

Induction and treatment of EAE:

… Pertussis toxin (200ng; List Biological Laboratories, Campbell, CA, USA) in PBS was administered i.v. on days 0 and 2.

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)

… SNPAtide (List Biological Laboratories, Inc., Campbell, CA). Full length BoNT/A (Metabiologics, Inc., Madison, WI). …

• Product #500 – SNAP-25 Recombinant Protein Substrate for C. botulinum Types A and E Neurotoxin

… Stimulation of the NALP1, NLRC4, or AIM2 inflammasome was achieved by treatment for 6 h with 1 g/ml protective antigen (List Biological Laboratories, Campbell, CA, USA) and 1 g/ml anthrax lethal factor (List Biological Laboratories), …

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

Identification of brain injection sites and CTblabelled terminals:

Brain injection sites (in the forelimb motor cortex and MLF) and the axon terminals labelled by anterograde transport of CTb were revealed using the chromogen 3, 3-diaminobenzidine (DAB; Sigma-Aldrich, UK). Brain sections and cervical spinal cord sections were incubated in goat anti-CTb (List Quadratech, USA: 1:50,000) for 48 h followed by 3 x 10 min rinses in phosphate buffered saline (PBS). …

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

Reagents:

LPS was obtained from List Biological Laboratories (San Jose, CA, USA). …

Author did not specify which List Labs LPS product was utilized in their research.  List Labs provides the following LPS products:  https://listlabs.com/product-information/lipopolysaccharides/

Initiation of antigen-induced arthritis (AIA):

Mice were immunized on days 21 and 14 by intradermal injection of 100 µg of methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA; Sigma-Aldrich) in 50 µl of phosphate buffered saline (PBS) emulsified in 50 µl of CFA (Sigma-Aldrich) containing 4 mg/ml of heat-killed M tuberculosis strain H37Ra (Difco). Along with each immunization, 200 ng of Bordetella pertussis toxin (List Biological Laboratories) was administered intraperitoneally. …

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)

EAE:

EAE:
Nine-week old C57BL/6J mice were randomly selected to be immunized with 100 µg MOG3555 peptide emulsified (1:1) in complete Freund’s adjuvant. Pertussis toxin (300 ng, List Laboratories, Campbell, CA, USA) was injected intraperitoneal on the day of MOG3555 immunization and two days later. …

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)

EAE:

… An intraperitoneal injection of 300 ng pertussis toxin (List Biological laboratories, Cedarlane, Canada) was administered on the day of induction and 2 days later. …

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)

Animals:

DT-injected DAT-DTR mice were used as experimental animals, denoted as DAT-DTR (DT), and DT-injected non-transgenic littermates were used as WT controls. …

Drugs:

Diphtheria toxin (List Biological Laboratories, Campbell, CA) was dissolved in saline solution and administered subcutaneously. …

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

Reagents:

… The retrograde tracer, cholera toxin B (CTb; List Biological Laboratories) was used at 0.5% in 0.1 m phosphate buffer, pH 6.0. …

… Immunolabeling procedures used primary antibodies for Fos, CTb, neuronal-specific nuclear protein (NeuN), and green fluorescent protein (GFP; used to visualize mCitrine+ neurons; obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, List Biological Laboratories, EMD Millipore, and MBL International, respectively), …

Stereotaxic injections:

… For retrograde tracer injections (Experiment 1), a glass micropipette (30 m tip diameter) containing CTb was lowered into the rostral mOT and deposited iontophoretically by passing a pulsatile (7 s on, 7 s off) cathodal current (+5 A) for 5-8 min using a current source (Stoelting). …

Histological analysis of CTb uptake and hM4Di infection:

For CTb and Fos double labeling, tissues were first Fos labeled, then refixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) for 10 min and washed in PBS before staining for CTb. Briefly, 30 m free-floating cryosections were incubated overnight in rabbit anti-c-Fos (1:1000) at room temperature followed by 1 h of incubation with biotinylated donkey anti-rabbit secondary antibody. Sections were next incubated with ABC reagent and visualized using DAB with nickel enhancement. Sections were refixed for 10 min in 4% PFA before immunolabeling for CTb, as follows: goat anti-CTb primary antibody (1:40,000) followed by …

• Product #104 – Cholera Toxin B Subunit (Choleragenoid) from Vibrio cholerae in Low Salt
• Product #703 – Anti-Cholera Toxin B Subunit (Goat)