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The intact holotoxin moves by vesicle carriers from the cell surface to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where CTA1 is released from  the rest of the toxin. The dissociated CTA1 subunit then shifts to an unfolded conformation, which triggers its export to the cytosol by a process involving the quality control system of ER-associated degradation (ERAD). We hypothesized that the unfolding of dissociated CTA1 would prevent its non-productive reassociation with CTA2\/CTB5.  To test this prediction, we monitored the real-time reassociation of CTA1 with CTA2\/CTB5 by surface plasmon resonance. Folded but not disordered CTA1 could interact with CTA2\/CTB5 to form a stable, functional holotoxin. Our data, thus, identified another role for the intrinsic instability of the isolated CTA1 polypeptide in host-toxin interactions: in addition to activating the ERAD translocation mechanism, the spontaneous unfolding of free CTA1 at 37 \u00b0C prevents the non-productive reassembly of a CT holotoxin in the ER.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/toxins7072674","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,20]],"date-time":"2015-07-20T09:56:54Z","timestamp":1437386214000},"page":"2674-2684","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A Conformational Shift in the Dissociated Cholera Toxin A1 Subunit Prevents Reassembly of the Cholera Holotoxin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Michael","family":"Taylor","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida,  12722 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Curtis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida,  12722 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ken","family":"Teter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida,  12722 Research Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1080\/09687680410001663267","article-title":"Cholera toxin: A paradigm for multi-functional engagement of cellular mechanisms (Review)","volume":"21","author":"Hirst","year":"2004","journal-title":"Mol. 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