Heat-stable enterotoxins (STs) are secretory peptides produced by some bacterial strains such as enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli which are in general toxic to animals.These peptides keep their 3D structure and remain active at temperatures as high as 100 °C.
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Heat-stable enterotoxin"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.