New Corynebacterium Species with the Potential to Produce Diphtheria Toxin [PDF]
Pathogens, 2022 Only three Corynebacterium species are known to produce a lethal exotoxin called diphtheria toxin. These are C. diphtheriae, C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis.
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THE PRODUCTION OF DIPHTHERIA TOXIN [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1896 Toxin of sufficient strength to kill a 400-gramme guinea-pig in three days and a half in a dose of 0·cubic centimetre developed in suitable bouillon, contained in ordinary Erlenmeyer flasks, within a period of twenty-four hours. In such boullon the toxin reached its greatest strength in from four to seven days (0·005 cubic centimetre killing a 500 ...
W H, Park, A W, Williams
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Challenges of Diphtheria Toxin Detection [PDF]
ToxinsDiphtheria toxin (DT) is the main virulence factor of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis. Moreover, new Corynebacterium species with the potential to produce diphtheria toxin have also been described.
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Diphtheria toxin activates ribotoxic stress and NLRP1 inflammasome-driven pyroptosis. [PDF]
J Exp Med, 2023 This work demonstrates that diphtheria toxin is a potent trigger for the ZAKα-dependent ribotoxic stress response and the NLRP1 inflammasome in human skin cells. ZAKα inhibition is effective at limiting the skin damage caused by diphtheria toxin in vitro.
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A brain-sparing diphtheria toxin for chemical genetic ablation of peripheral cell lineages
Nature Communications, 2017 Diphtheria toxin selectively kills cells engineered to express the diphtheria toxin receptor (DTR). Here the authors report a PEGylated version of diphtheria toxin that does not enter the brain, allowing for ablation of only peripheral cells when using ...
Mafalda M. A. Pereira +10 more
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The Hsp90 machinery facilitates the transport of diphtheria toxin into human cells
Scientific Reports, 2017 Diphtheria toxin kills human cells because it delivers its enzyme domain DTA into their cytosol where it inhibits protein synthesis. After receptor-mediated uptake of the toxin, DTA translocates from acidic endosomes into the cytosol, which might be ...
Manuel Schuster +16 more
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Human antibodies neutralizing diphtheria toxin in vitro and in vivo. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Diphtheria is an infectious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The bacterium primarily infects the throat and upper airways and the produced diphtheria toxin (DT), which binds to the elongation factor 2 and blocks protein synthesis, can ...
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Mutation and Diversity of Diphtheria Toxin in Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 Corynebacterium ulcerans infection is emerging in humans. We conducted phylogenetic analyses of C. ulcerans and C. diptheriae, which revealed diverse diphtheria toxin in C. ulcerans.
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Targeted Diphtheria Toxin-Based Therapy: A Review Article. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2019 Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Conventional therapeutic strategies usually offer limited specificity, resulting in severe side effects and toxicity to normal tissues.
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Production of IgY polyclonal antibody against diphtheria toxin and evaluation of its neutralization effect by Vero cell assay [PDF]
BMC Biotechnology, 2021 Background Diphtheria is a bacterial disease which is caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The symptoms are due to the diphtheria toxin produced by the bacteria.
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