SHIGA TOXINS

  

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SHIGA TOXINS

Specialty Definition: SHIGA TOXINS

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Health

A class of toxins that inhibit protein synthesis by blocking the interaction of ribosomal RNA with peptide elongation factors. They include shiga toxin which is produced by Shigella dysenteriae and a variety of shiga-like toxins that are produced by pathologic strains of Escherichia coli such as Escherichia coli O157. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SHIGA TOXINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-i-n-o-s-s-t-x"

-3 letters: agonists, astonish, hoisting, insights, stashing.

-4 letters: agonist, gitanos, goatish, hasting, hissing, histing, hoaxing, hoising, hosting, insight, isatins, sashing, shantis, stingos, stonish, tahinis, taxiing, tossing.

-5 letters: agists, angsts, ashing, assign, axions, gainst, ghosts, giants, gitano, gnosis, gossan, hating, hogans, hoists, hosing, hostas, ingots, insist, isatin, nights, saints, sanghs, santos, sating, satins, shanti, shoats, sights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SHIGA TOXINS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 49 47 41      54 4F 58 49 4E 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01001001 01000111 01000001 00100000 01010100 01001111 01011000 01001001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#73 &#71 &#65 &#32 &#84 &#79 &#88 &#73 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0049 0047 0041      0054 004F 0058 0049 004E 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53424341352544958434853

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