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Retrograde transport pathways utilised by viruses and protein toxins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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
core   +2 more sources

Outbreak with clonally related isolates of Corynebacterium ulcerans in a group of water rats [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core   +2 more sources

A brain-sparing diphtheria toxin for chemical genetic ablation of peripheral cell lineages

open access: yesNature 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
doaj   +1 more source

Microbe profile : Corynebacterium diphtheriae - an old foe always ready to seize opportunity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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.
core   +1 more source

Delivery of drugs, proteins and genes into cells using transferrin as a ligand for receptor-mediated endocytosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
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
core   +1 more source

Kinetics of Diphtheria Toxin Formation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of General Microbiology, 1962
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
openaire   +3 more sources

Diphtheria toxin-binding glycoproteins on hamster cells: candidates for diphtheria toxin receptors [PDF]

open access: bronzeInfection and Immunity, 1979
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
openalex   +3 more sources

Semicarbazone EGA Inhibits Uptake of Diphtheria Toxin into Human Cells and Protects Cells from Intoxication

open access: yesToxins, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Population genomics and antimicrobial resistance in Corynebacterium diphtheriae

open access: yesGenome Medicine, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Detection of toxin-producing Corynebacterium diphtheriae from throat swabs of diphtheria patients using duplex real-time PCR

open access: yesIranian Journal of Microbiology, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

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