Bacterial protein toxins /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | xvi, 348 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4810726 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- I.. Genetics and Regulation
- 1. Two-Component Systems
- 2. Regulation of Bacterial Toxin Synthesis by Iron
- 3. AraC Family Regulators and Transcriptional Control of Bacterial Virulence Determinants
- 4. Quorum Sensing
- II.. Toxin Biogenesis: Crossing Bacterial Membrane Barriers
- Box 1. Type V Export Systems: Proteins That Export Themselves
- 5. The Type I Export Mechanism
- 6. Toxins and Type II Secretion Systems
- 7. Type III Secretion Systems
- Box 2. Pathogenicity Islands
- 8. Type IV Secretion Systems
- III.. Toxin Delivery into Eukaryotic Cells
- 9. Receptors for Bacterial Toxins
- Box 3. Domain Structures of Bacterial Toxins
- Box 4. Recombinant Immunotoxins
- 10. Direct Penetration of Bacterial Toxins across the Plasma Membrane
- 11. Transport of Toxins across Intracellular Membranes
- 12. Transcytosis of Bacterial Toxins across Mucosal Barriers
- Box 5. Lipid Rafts
- IV.. Toxin Action
- 13. Membrane-Damaging Toxins: Pore Formation
- Box 6. The Vacuolating Toxin VacA of Helicobacter pylori
- 14. Membrane-Damaging Toxins: Family of RTX Toxins
- 15. Bacterial Toxins that Covalently Modify Eukaryotic Proteins by ADP-Ribosylation
- Box 7. Discovery that the Active Sites of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exotoxin A and the Heat-Labile Enterotoxin of Escherichia coli Are Superimposable
- 16. Glucosylating and Deamidating Bacterial Protein Toxins
- 17. Plant and Bacterial Toxins as RNA N-Glycosidases
- 18. Cytolethal Distending Toxin
- 19. Proteases
- Box 8. Landmarks in Tetanus and Botulinum Research
- 20. Bacterial Toxins that Modulate Rho GTPase Activity
- 21. Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Superantigens
- V.. Bacterial Toxins: Friends and Foes
- 22. Toxins as Vaccines and Adjuvants
- 23. Nefarious Uses of Bacterial Toxins
- Color Plates
- Index
