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Retrograde transport pathways utilised by viruses and protein toxins [PDF]
A model has been presented for retrograde transport of certain toxins and viruses from the cell surface to the ER that suggests an obligatory interaction with a glycolipid receptor at the cell surface. Here we review studies on the ER trafficking cholera
Easton, A. J. (Andrew J.)+4 more
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Outbreak with clonally related isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans in a group of water rats [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The zoonotic bacterium Corynebacterium ulcerans may be pathogenic both in humans and animals: toxigenic strains can cause diphtheria or diphtheria-like disease in humans via diphtheria toxin, while strains producing the dermonecrotic exotoxin
Althoff, Gisa+11 more
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A brain-sparing diphtheria toxin for chemical genetic ablation of peripheral cell lineages
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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Microbe profile : Corynebacterium diphtheriae - an old foe always ready to seize opportunity [PDF]
Diphtheria AB toxin mode of action. The diphtheria AB exotoxin consists of two polypeptide chains - A and B which are linked by a disulfide bridge. The B chain binds to the heparin-binding epidermal growth factor precursor on eukaryotic cells and is ...
Hoskisson, Paul A.
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Delivery of drugs, proteins and genes into cells using transferrin as a ligand for receptor-mediated endocytosis [PDF]
Transferrin, an iron-transporting serum glycoprotein, is efficiently taken up into cells by the process of receptor-mediated endocytosis. Transferrin receptors are found on the surface of most proliferating cells, in elevated numbers on erythroblasts and
Akiyama+182 more
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Kinetics of Diphtheria Toxin Formation [PDF]
SUMMARY: Studies on the kinetics of diphtheria toxin formation in iron-free culture media by variants of the PW no. 8 strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae labelled with 14C-phenylalanine or 35S-methionine, showed that the toxin protein was synthesized de novo from amino acids by growing organisms.
Alwin M. Pappenheimer+2 more
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Diphtheria toxin-binding glycoproteins on hamster cells: candidates for diphtheria toxin receptors [PDF]
Diphtheria toxin-binding glycoproteins of high molecular weight (greater than 100,000) were identified on the surface of lymph node and thymus cells from hamsters, a diphtheria toxin-sensitive species. These diphtheria toxin-binding glycoproteins also interacted with CRM197 protein, which possesses toxin-blocking activity, but not with diphtheria ...
Richard L. Proia+2 more
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Diphtheria toxin is a single-chain protein toxin that invades human cells by receptor-mediated endocytosis. In acidic endosomes, its translocation domain inserts into endosomal membranes and facilitates the transport of the catalytic domain (DTA) from ...
Leonie Schnell+5 more
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Population genomics and antimicrobial resistance in Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Background Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the agent of diphtheria, is a genetically diverse bacterial species. Although antimicrobial resistance has emerged against several drugs including first-line penicillin, the genomic determinants and population ...
Melanie Hennart+12 more
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Background and Objectives: Diphtheria is a potentially fatal disease caused by toxigenic bacterial infection, particularly from Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheriae). Isolation of C.
Yeva Rosana+4 more
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