TY - BOOK AU - Burns,Drusilla L. TI - Bacterial protein toxins SN - 1555812457 PY - 2003/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - ASM Press KW - Bacterial toxins KW - Bacterial Toxins KW - Bacterial Proteins N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents I. GENETICS AND REGULATION 1 Two-Component Systems Scott Stibitz 2 Regulation of Bacterial Toxin Synthesis by Iron Shelley M. Payne 3 AraC Family Regulators and Transcriptional Control of Bacterial Virulence Determinants Dara W. Frank and Meredith L. Hunt 4 Quorum Sensing Everett C. Pesci and Barbara H. Iglewski II. TOXIN BIOGENESIS: CROSSING BACTERIAL MEMBRANE BARRIERS Box 1: Type V Export Systems: Proteins That Export Themselves Drusilla L. Burns 5 The Type I Export Mechanism Vassilis Koronakis, Jeyanthy Eswaran, and Colin Hughes 6 Toxins and Type II Secretion Systems Maria E. Scott and Maria Sandkvist 7 Type III Secretion Systems Gregory V. Piano, Kurt Schesser, and Matthew L. Nilles Box 2 Pathogenicity Islands Jorg Hacker 8 Type IV Secretion Systems Drusilla L. Burns III. TOXIN DELIVERY INTO EUKARYOTIC CELLS 9 Receptors for Bacterial Toxins Catharine B. Saelinger Box 3 Domain Structures of Bacterial Toxins Stephen H. Leppla Box 4 Recombinant Immunotoxins David J. FitzGerald, Robert J. Kreitman, and Ira Pastan 10 Direct Penetration of Bacterial Toxins across the Plasma Membrane Franca R. Zaretzky, Mary C. Gray, and Erik L. Hewlett 11 Transport of Toxins across Intracellular Membranes Kirsten Sandvig 12 Transcytosis of Bacterial Toxins across Mucosal Barriers Bonny L. Dickinson and Wayne I. Lencer Box 5 Lipid Rafts Bonny L. Dickinson and Wayne I. Lencer IV. TOXIN ACTION 13 Membrane-Damaging Toxins: Pore Formation F. Gisou van der Goot Box 6 The Vacuolating Toxin VacA of Helicobacter pylori F. Gisou van der Goot 14 Membrane-Damaging Toxins: Family of RTX Toxins Camilla Oxhamre and Agneta Richter-Dahlfors 15 Bacterial Toxins that Covalently Modify Eukaryotic Proteins by ADP-Ribosylation Joseph T. Barbieri and Drusilla L. Burns Box 7 Discovery that the Active Sites of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exotoxin A and the Heat-Labile Enterotoxin of Escherichia coli Are Superimposable Wim Hol 16 Glucosylating and Deamidating Bacterial Protein Toxins Klaus Aktories 17 Plant and Bacterial Toxins as RNA N-Glycosidases Angela Melton-Celsa and Alison D. O'Brien 18 Cytolethal Distending Toxin Lawrence A. Dreyfus 19 Proteases Ornella Rossetto, Fiorella Tonello, and Cesare Montecucco Box 8 Landmarks in Tetanus and Botulinum Research Ornella Rossetto, Fiorella Tonello, and Cesare Montecucco 20 Bacterial Toxins that Modulate Rho GTPase Activity James B. Bliska and Gloria I Viboud 21 Staphylococcal and Streptococcal Superantigens Patrick M. Schlievert V. BACTERIAL TOXINS: FRIENDS AND FOES 22 Toxins as Vaccines and Adjuvants Mariagrazia Pizza, Vega Masignani, and Rino Rappuoli 23 Nefarious Uses of Bacterial Toxins Drusilla L. Burns and Joseph T. Barbieri UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy037/2002152890.html ER -