Michael N. Starnbach and R. John Collier are in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. starnbach@hms.harvard.edu or jcollier@hms.harvard.edu
Anthrax toxin is known to impair key signaling pathways, but exactly how does this damage the body or benefit the bacterium? Impairment of host immunity is now linked to an enzymatic activity of the toxin.
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