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Bacterial protein toxins / edited by Drusilla L. Burns ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2003.Description: xvi, 348 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1555812457
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • QW 630.5.B2 B131 2003
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Contents:
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
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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

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