Published: Elsevier, 2006
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1 online resource (xxiii, 1047 pages) : illustrations.
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“…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? …”
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