The comprehensive sourcebook of bacterial protein toxins.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xxiii, 1047 p. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5850294 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction A 116-year story of bacterial protein toxins (1888-2004)
- From diphtheritic poison to molecular toxinology
- Evolutionary aspects of toxin-producing bacteria
- Mobile genetic elements and pathogenicity islands encoding bacterial toxins
- Regulation systems of toxin expression
- Toxin secretion systems Intracellular trafficking of bacterial protein toxins
- Translocation of bacterial protein toxin into the cytosol
- Bacterial toxins and virulence factors targeting the actin cytoskeleton and intracellular junctions
- Bacterial toxins and mitochondria
- Toxins activating RHO GTPases and exploiting the cellular ubiquitin/proteasome machineries
- Toxin receptors Molecular, functional and evolutionary aspects of ADP-ribosylating toxins
- Diphtheria toxin Attack of the nervous system by clostridial toxins
- Physical findings, cellular and molecular actions Uptake and transport of clostridial neurotoxins
- Bacillus anthracis toxins Large clostridial cytotoxins modifying small GTPases
- Bordetella protein toxins Vibrio Cholerae and Escherichia Coli thermolabile enterotoxin
- The Shiga toxins
- Properties and action on cells Helicobacter pylori vacuolating toxin
- Pasteurella multocida toxin
- Cytolethal distending toxins
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxins
- Escherichia coli heat- stable enterotoxin b Paradigms and classification of bacterial membrane -damaging toxins
- Membrane damaging and cytotoxic phospholipases
- Bacteroides fragilis toxins
- Structure and mode of action of RTX cytolysins
- Genetics and phylogeny of RTX cytolysins
- The family of two-component cytolysins of Serratia and other bacteria
- Alpha-helix and Beta-barrel pore-forming toxins (leucocidins, alpha-, gamma- and delta-cytolysins) of Staphylococcus aureus Aerolysin and related Aeromonas toxins Clostridium septicum pore-forming alpha-toxin
- Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin Repertoire and general features of the family of cholesteroldependent cytolysins
- Comparative three-dimensional structure of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins
- Perfringolysin O and Intermedilysin: mechanisms of pore formation by the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins
- Pneumolysin: structure, function and role in disease Listeriolysin
- Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin toxin Streptolysin S: one of the most potent and elusive of all bacterial toxins
- The group B streptococcal beta-haemolysin/cytolysin Haemolysins of Vibrio cholerae and other Vibrio species
- Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin Bacillus cereus enterotoxins, bi- and tri-component cytolysins and other haemolysins
- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli cytolysins Escherichia coli, Vibrio and Yersinia species heat-stable enterotoxins
- What are superantigens?
- Staphylococcal superantigens and the diseases they cause Streptococcal superantigenic toxins
- Superantigenic toxin of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
- Comparative three-dimensional structure of bacterial superantigenic toxins
- Induction and modulation of inflammatory networks by bacterial protein toxins
- Clostridial toxins in the pathogenesis of gas gangrene
- Staphylococcal exfoliative toxins
- Medical applications of botulinum neurotoxins
- Bacterial protein toxins as food poisons
- Engineering of bacterial toxins for research and medicine
- Engineered bacterial toxin vaccines and adjuvants
- Toxins as tools Bacter
