... and the change of the molecular species composition of the cel-lular Gb3[28,29]. In in vitro binding assays, the fattyacid chain of Gb3was found to in uence the bindingto Shiga toxin [30,31]. In ... transport of the holotoxin and the delivery of the monomeric catalytic A-subunit into the cytosol, leading to the inhibition of protein biosynthe-sis [13,14]. In numerous cell lines [15], it has been ... 5% of those in untreated control cells. Under these conditions, the 4 °C binding protocol used for control cells does notallow detectable amounts of STxB to associate with cells. Therefore, the...