Research Catalog

Title

Bacterial protein toxins / edited by Drusilla L. Burns [and others].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

Burns, Drusilla L.

Description

xvi, 348 pages, x 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subjects

• Bacterial toxins
• Bacterial Toxins
• Bacterial Proteins

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / R. John Collier -- 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. Plano, 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 Heliocobacter 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 Rosetto, 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.

ISBN

1555812457

LCCN

2002152890

OCLC

• 50782610
• ocm50782610
• SCSB-4339453

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries