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Identification of a novel zinc metalloprotease through a global analysis of clostridium difficile extracellular proteins [PDF]

, 2013
Clostridium difficile is a major cause of infectious diarrhea worldwide. Although the cell surface proteins are recognized to be important in clostridial pathogenesis, biological functions of only a few are known.
A Barketi-Klai, A Bateman, A Boetzkes, A Dhalluin, A Molla, A Tasteyre, A Tasteyre, A Tasteyre, A Wright, A Wright, AJ Waligora, B Singh, BR Hoffmann, C Janoir, C Schwan, CB Reynolds, CC Häse, CM Surawicz, D Lyras, D Zhang, Davide Serruto, DC Nelson, DE Voth, DJ Rigden, E Calabi, E Calabi, EJ Kuipers, F Tonello, FH Niesen, Francesca Cantini, G Bensi, GA Dalkas, GM Slynn, H Maeda, I Poilane, Jeffrey T. Rubino, JM Kirby, JR O'Connor, JW Teo, K Mukherjee, K Yokoyama, KR Klimpel, L de la Riva, L Tulli, LG Pacheco, M Cerquetti, M Desvaux, M Miura, M Monot, M Rupnik, M Sebaihia, M Warny, MA Breidenbach, Manuele Martinelli, Maria Scarselli, Massimiliano Biagini, Meera Unnikrishnan, Mikael Skurnik, MJ Rodríguez-Ortega, N Sengupta, Nathalie Norais, NM Hooper, NS Duesbery, O Schneewind, Rosanna Leuzzi, RP Fagan, S Péchiné, S Péchiné, S Ravipaty, SA Kuehne, T Karasawa, T Karjalainen, TC Dingle, Valeria Cafardi   +73 more
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Disulfide bonds in the ectodomain of anthrax toxin receptor 2 are required for the receptor-bound protective-antigen pore to function. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Cell-surface receptors play essential roles in anthrax toxin action by providing the toxin with a high-affinity anchor and self-assembly site on the plasma membrane, mediating the toxin entry into cells through endocytosis, and shifting the pH threshold ...
Jianjun Sun, R John Collier
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Delayed toxicity associated with soluble anthrax toxin receptor decoy-Ig fusion protein treatment. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Soluble receptor decoy inhibitors, including receptor-immunogloubulin (Ig) fusion proteins, have shown promise as candidate anthrax toxin therapeutics.
Diane Thomas, John Naughton, Christopher Cote, Susan Welkos, Marianne Manchester, John A T Young   +5 more
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Anthrax toxin uptake by primary immune cells as determined with a lethal factor-beta-lactamase fusion protein. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BACKGROUND:To initiate infection, Bacillus anthracis needs to overcome the host innate immune system. Anthrax toxin, a major virulence factor of B. anthracis, impairs both the innate and adaptive immune systems and is important in the establishment of ...
Haijing Hu, Stephen H Leppla
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Bacillus anthracis edema factor substrate specificity: evidence for new modes of action [PDF]

, 2012
Since the isolation of Bacillus anthracis exotoxins in the 1960s, the detrimental activity of edema factor (EF) was considered as adenylyl cyclase activity only.
Agrawal, Altaweel, Basler, Bauche, Bell, Benson, Beste, Bock, Bond, Boyd, Bradley, Brown, Burhenne, Carbonetti, Carbonetti, Carson-Walter, Casteel, Christensen, Christensen, Confer, Copsel, Crawford, Crowe, Cunningham, Dalkas, Defer, Deuquet, Ding, Drum, Duesbery, Feld, Firoved, Friedlander, Fu, Fukuhara, Gaion, Gille, Gordon, Göttle, Hammerschmidt, He, Helfman, Hong, Ivarsson, Jernigan, Johnson, Katayama, Katayama, Kaupp, Kintzer, Klimpel, Laine, Larabee, Larabee, Leppla, Liu, Martin Göttle, McDonough, Milne, Mogridge, Mogridge, Newton, Newton, Newton, Newton, Newton, Oncu, O´Brien, Park, Petosa, Pezard, Postea, Puhar, Roland Seifert, Santelli, Scobie, Scobie, Scorpio, Shapiro, Shen, Shirshev, Soelaiman, Stefan Dove, Sun, Tamayo, Taylor, Taylor, Tesmer, Thomas, Tournier, Vitale, Vitale, Vojtova, Yeager, Zong   +94 more
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Anthrax Susceptibility: Human Genetic Polymorphisms Modulating ANTXR2 Expression

Toxins, 2015
Anthrax toxin causes anthrax pathogenesis and expression levels of ANTXR2 (anthrax toxin receptor 2) are strongly correlated with anthrax toxin susceptibility.
Zhang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Minglei Shi, Bingyu Ye, Wenlong Shen, Ping Li, Lingyue Xing, Xiaopeng Zhang, Lihua Hou, Junjie Xu, Zhihu Zhao, Wei Chen   +11 more
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Recombinant HSA-CMG2 Is a Promising Anthrax Toxin Inhibitor

Toxins, 2016
Anthrax toxin is the major virulence factor produced by Bacillus anthracis. Protective antigen (PA) is the key component of the toxin and has been confirmed as the main target for the development of toxin inhibitors.
Liangliang Li, Qiang Guo, Ju Liu, Jun Zhang, Ying Yin, Dayong Dong, Ling Fu, Junjie Xu, Wei Chen   +8 more
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Anthrax lethal and edema toxins in anthrax pathogenesis [PDF]

Trends in Microbiology, 2014
The pathophysiological effects resulting from many bacterial diseases are caused by exotoxins released by the bacteria. Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming bacterium, is such a pathogen, causing anthrax through a combination of bacterial infection and toxemia. B.
Shihui, Liu, Mahtab, Moayeri, Stephen H, Leppla   +2 more
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Quantitative prediction of multivalent ligand–receptor binding affinities for influenza, cholera, and anthrax inhibition [PDF]

, 2018
Multivalency achieves strong, yet reversible binding by the simultaneous formation of multiple weak bonds. It is a key interaction principle in biology and promising for the synthesis of high-affinity inhibitors of pathogens. We present a molecular model
Liese, Susanne, Netz, Roland R.
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Improving the anti-toxin abilities of the CMG2-Fc fusion protein with the aid of computational design. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
CMG2-Fc is a fusion protein composed of the extracellular domain of capillary morphogenesis protein 2 (CMG2) and the Fc region of human immunoglobulin G; CMG2-Fc neutralizes anthrax toxin and offers protection against Bacillus anthracis challenge.
Yongyi Xi, Xiaojie Wu, Lihua Gao, Yong Shao, Hui Peng, Hongxing Chen, Huipeng Chen, Xianwen Hu, Junjie Yue   +8 more
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