Medical Definition of Shiga toxin
1.
Bacterial toxin from Shigella dysenteriae that blocks eukaryotic protein synthesis.
See: Shiga like toxins.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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