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Rigor mortis is dependent on ATP in order for it to occur. However the anthrax bacilli have a toxin called edema factor or calmodulin dependent adenylate cyclase, which is a toxin that inhibits the stiffening of muscles by constantly stimulating the release of cAMP, so that the cAMP level in body is never low. Thus even after death it supplies the muscles with adequate cAMP to be relaxed, even after a prolonged period.

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