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Title Bacterial toxins and virulence factors in disease / edited by Joel Moss [and others]
Published New York, N.Y. : M. Dekker, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 627 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbook of natural toxins ; v. 8
Handbook of natural toxins ; v. 8
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface to the Handbook; Preface to Volume 8; Contents; Contributors; Contents of Previous Volumes; PART I. CLINICAL USES OF BACTERIAL TOXINS; 1. Therapeutic Effects of Botulinum Toxins; 2. Diphtheria Toxin and Related Fusion Proteins: Autonomous Systems for the Delivery of Proteins and Peptides to the Cytosol of Eukaryotic Cells; 3. Liposomes as Vehicles for Vaccines: Induction of Humoral, Cellular, and Mucosal Immunity; PART II. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF BACTERIAL ADP-RIBOSYLTRANSFERASES; 4. Bacterial ADP-Ribosyltransferases
PART III. MECHANISMS OF DIPHTHERIA TOXIN ACTION5. Three-Dimensional Structure of Diphtheria Toxin; 6. The Diphtheria Toxin Receptor; 7. Diphthamide: The Toxin Target in Protein Synthesis Elongation Factor 2; PART IV. CHOLERA TOXIN ANDE. COLI HEAT-LABILE; 8. Biogenesis of Cholera Toxin and Related Oligomeric Enterotoxins; 9. Structure and Function of E. coli Heat-Labile Enterotoxin and Cholera Toxin B Pentamer; 10. Cholera Toxin and Related Enterotoxins of Gram-Negative Bacteria
11. ADP-Ribosylation Factors: A Family of Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Proteins That Activate Cholera Toxin and Regulate Vesicular TransportPART V. DIVERSITY OF ACTION IN THE ENTEROTOXIN FAMILY; 12. Heat-Stable Enterotoxin of Escherichia coli; 13. Zot and Ace Toxins of Vibrio cholerae; 14. Shiga and Shiga-like (Vero) Toxins; 15. Clostridium difficile and Its Toxins; PART VI. BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS VIRULENCE FACTORS; 16. Bordetella pertussis: Determinants of Virulence; 17. Muramyl Peptides as Exotoxins: Bordetella Tracheal Cytotoxin; 18. Adenylyl Cyclase Toxin from Bordetella pertussis
19. Biosynthesis and Targeting of Pertussis Toxin20. GTP-Binding Proteins as the Substrates of Pertussis Toxin-Catalyzed ADP-Ribosylation; PART VII. DIVERSITY OF ACTIONS OF OTHER TOXIC BACTERIAL PRODUCTS; 21. Modification of Actin and Rho Proteins by Clostridial ADP-Ribosylating Toxins; 22. Tetanus Toxin; 23. Anthrax Toxins; 24. Leukocidins; 25. Endotoxin: A Mediator of and Potential Therapeutic Target for Septic Shock; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Bacterial toxins.
Virulence (Microbiology)
Bacterial Toxins
Bacteria -- pathogenicity
Virulence
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Bacterial toxins
Virulence (Microbiology)
Toxines bactériennes.
Virulence.
Bakteriengift
Toxikologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Pharmakologie
Vergif.
Bacteriën.
Virulentie.
Toxines microbiennes.
Virulence (microbiologie)
Form Electronic book
Author Moss, Joel
ISBN 0585345031
9780585345031
9781482273205
1482273209
0429085907
9780429085901