Scientific Reports, 2021 Clostridium tetani produces the tetanus toxin (TeNT), one of the most powerful bacterial toxins known to humankind and responsible for tetanus. The regulation of toxin expression is complex and involves the alternative sigma factor TetR as well as other ...
Holger Brüggemann +3 more
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Reversible cross-tolerance to platelet-activating factor signaling by bacterial toxins
Platelets, 2021 Bacterial toxins signaling through Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are implicated in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory diseases. Among the toxins, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exerts its action via TLR-4 while lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and bacterial ...
Kandahalli Venkataranganayaka Abhilasha +5 more
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Bacteria-derived chimeric toxins as potential anticancer agents
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 Cancer is one of the major causes of death globally, requiring everlasting efforts to develop novel, specific, effective, and safe treatment strategies.
Saeed Khoshnood +7 more
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Bacterial toxins: Offensive, defensive, or something else altogether? [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2017 Justine K Rudkin +2 more
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The VgrG Proteins Are "à la Carte" Delivery Systems for Bacterial Type VI Effectors [PDF]
, 2014 The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a supra-molecular complex akin to bacteriophage tails, with VgrG proteins acting as a puncturing device. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa H1-T6SS has been extensively characterized.
Allsopp, LP +3 more
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The Proteome of Biologically Active Membrane Vesicles from Piscirickettsia salmonis LF-89 Type Strain Identifies Plasmid-Encoded Putative Toxins [PDF]
, 2017 Indexación: Scopus.Piscirickettsia salmonis is the predominant bacterial pathogen affecting the Chilean salmonid industry. This bacterium is the etiological agent of piscirickettsiosis, a significant fish disease.
Artigues, A. +14 more
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The effect of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in late pregnancy on antibody levels to staphylococcal toxins in cord blood and breast milk. [PDF]
, 2008 We investigated the effect of carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in the later stages of pregnancy on levels of antibody specific to the S. aureus toxins, staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), staphylococcal enterotoxin C (SEC) and toxic shock syndrome toxin-
Al Madani +37 more
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Why Are Botulinum Neurotoxin-Producing Bacteria So Diverse and Botulinum Neurotoxins So Toxic?
Toxins, 2019 Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) are the most lethal toxins among all bacterial, animal, plant and chemical poisonous compounds. Although a great effort has been made to understand their mode of action, some questions are still open.
Bernard Poulain, Michel R. Popoff
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"Alternative" endocytic mechanisms exploited by pathogens: new avenues for therapeutic delivery? [PDF]
, 2007 Some pathogens utilize unique routes to enter cells that may evade the intracellular barriers encountered by the typical clathrin-mediated endocytic pathway.
Medina-Kauwe, LK
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