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Section Board for 'Bacterial Toxins' (59)
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Interests: bacterial protein toxins; clostridial toxins; pore-forming toxins; cellular uptake of bacterial toxins; Rho-GTPases; interactions of clostridial toxins with the actin cytoskeleton; botulinum neurotoxins; passage of the neurotoxins through epithelial barrier; regulation of clostridial toxin synthesis
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Special Issue in Toxins: Toxins:10th Anniversary
Special Issue in Toxins: Selected Papers from the 26th Meeting of the French Society for Toxinology—Bioengineering of Toxins
Special Issue in Toxins: Toxins: Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll?
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry proteins; Lysinibacillus sphaericus; Bin toxin; insect midgut; uptake of protein toxins
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Interests: molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial toxins; protein biochemistry; protein engineering; toxin-host interactions; toxin translocation; clostridium difficile; diphtheria toxin; drug discovery; development of antivirulence agents
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Special Issue in Toxins: Potency, Duration of Action, and Pharmacodynamics of Human Neurotoxins
Interests: gut pathogens; epithelial barrier function; tight junction regulation; clostridial toxins; bacterial pore-forming toxins and toxic metabolites; campylobacter toxins; colonization; invasion; leaky gut phenomenon; immune cell—epithelial cell co-culture and organoids; barrier-breaking mechanisms of arcobacter; aeromonas; campylobacter; clostridioides difficile; escherichia coli; klebisella oxytoca; salmonella; yersinia enterocoltitica; helicobacter pylori
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Interests: immunoassays; diagnosis; lateral flow immunoassays; ELISA; biosensors; monoclonal antibodies; immunotherapy; neutralization assays; bacterial toxins; Botulinum neurotoxins; Staphylococcus enterotoxins; Clostridium perfringens enterotoxins; plant toxins; ricin; abrin
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Interests: bacterial toxins; diphtheria toxin; ricin toxin; Shiga toxins; botulinum toxins; intracellular trafficking; biodefense; toxin inhibitors; antitoxin drug development
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Special Issue in Toxins: Ribosome Inactivating Toxins
Special Issue in Toxins: Inhibitors and Countermeasures against Bacterial and Plant Toxins
Interests: Vip3 proteins; resistance to Bt proteins; Cry and Vip mode of action
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Interests: bacterial toxins; Shiga toxins; hemolytic uremic syndrome; ribosome-inactivating proteins
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Interests: clostridium difficile toxins; large clostridial glycosylating toxins; actin cytoskeleton; cell motility; cytoskeletal proteins; infection; signaling; Rho; Ras
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Interests: bacterial protein toxins; Clostridioides difficile; Helicobacter pylori; host responses to bacterial pathogens; structural biology
Interests: botulinum toxins; phenomenology; neurophysiology and treatment of Parkinson’s disease; tremor and dystonia; infusion pumps and deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease; gait disorders
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2. Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
Interests: botulinum toxins; movement disorders; smart technologies; computational neuroscience; motor control and machine learning
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Interests: AB toxins; Cholera toxin; toxin translocation; endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation; secretory traffic; chaperones; cell biology; cellular microbiology; host-pathogen interactions; structure-function analysis
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2. Service of Bacteriology-Hygiene, Toulouse University Hospital, 31300 Toulouse, France
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Interests: bacterial pore-forming toxins; Clostridium perfringens toxins; Etx_Mtx2 family proteins; Helicobacter pylori toxins; bacterial lipoproteins
2. Environmental Diseases Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 125 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Korea
Interests: Bacterial toxins; Shiga toxin-producing E.coli; Shiga toxins; hemolytic uremic syndrome
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Special Issue in Toxins: Recent Advances in Etiology of Shiga Toxins
Interests: cholesterol-dependent cytolysin; membrane repair; inflammasome; macrophage; Dnase1L3
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Special Issue in Toxins: Macrophage Interplay with Pore-Forming Toxins
Special Issue in Toxins: Pore-Forming Toxin Interactions with the Membrane
Interests: pore-forming toxins; host cytoskeleton; Listeria monocytogenes; host–pathogen interactions
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Interests: spasticity; botulinum neurotoxin; neurological rehabilitation; robotics for neurological rehabilitation
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Interests: functional urology; female urology; neuro-urology; oncological urology
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Special Issue in Toxins: Botulinum Toxins: An Application in Humans and Animals
Interests: microbiology; infectious diseases; Buruli ulcer; Mycobacterium ulcerans; Mycolactone; environment
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Bacillus thuringiensis toxins; Bt resistance; CRISPR/Cas9,and P450s and xenobiotic metabolism in lepidopteran pests
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Interests: small GTPases; secretory pathway; Golgi complex; intracellular transport; cell biology, biophysics;toxin-host interactions; molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial toxins
Interests: S. aureus-host interaction; S. aureus toxins; intracellular persistence; chronic staphylococcal infections
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Interests: botulinum neurotoxins; neuropathic pain; peripheral nerve; motor function; functional recovery; animal model; glial cells; Schwann cells
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Interests: Clostridium botulinum; botulinum toxin; clostridial neurotoxins
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Special Issue in Toxins: Infant Botulism and Adult Intestinal Botulism
Interests: structural bioinformatics; molecular modeling; biomolecular structure calculation; molecular dynamics; host–pathogen interactions; bacterial toxins
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Interests: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC); Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA); Sepsis and septic shock; Protein C pathway; Development of pre-clinical animal models of human diseases; Shiga-toxins; and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS).
Interests: protein trafficking, Shiga toxins, AB5 toxins, Golgi apparatus, endosomes, metal homeostasis, manganese
Interests: homologous recombination; DNA repair; horizontal gene transfer; plasmid and chromosomal segregation; plasmid partition; toxin-antitoxins on cell physiology
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Interests: structure of several toxic proteins that create holes in the cell surface, resulting in cell death; MACPF toxin.
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Interests: spinal cord injury; management of spasticity; management of pain; Poliovirus and poliomyelitis; Headache and related disorders, n treatment with Botulinum toxin
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Interests: Clostridium toxins; toxin secretion by Gram-positive bacteria; bacterial pathogenesis; regulation of toxin synthesis; Clostridium perfringens; effects of cytotoxins on phagocytic cells; Gram positive type IV pili-mediated toxin secretion
Interests: toxin-antitoxin systems; bacterial pathogenesis; horizontal gene transfer; mobile genetic elements
2. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Lysinibacillus sphaericus; biological control; bioinsecticides; ascoviruses; baculoviruses; chitinases; bacteriocins
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; bacterial virulence factors; bacterial pore forming toxins; Listeria monocytogenes
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Interests: Bacterial protein toxins; ADP-ribosylating toxins; glycosylating toxins; deamidating toxins; Rho GTPase activating and inhibiting toxins; Clostridial glucosylating toxins; Pasteurella multocida toxin; Legionella glucosyltransferases; Photorhabdus toxins; Yersinia toxins
Interests: the interaction between bacterial pathogens and the human host
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Lysinibacillus sphaericus; Culex; Aede; Anopheles; Cry; Cyt and Bin
Interests: clostridium perfringens toxins; enterotoxins; pore-forming toxins; toxin genetics; toxin action
Interests: Clostridium difficile; clostridial toxin; bacterial toxin; toxin receptor; toxin uptake
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Interests: bacterial protein toxin action; cellular and molecular microbiology and immunology; vaccines
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Interests: Shiga toxin; O157; enteroaggregative; enterohemorrhagic; Escherichia coli; O104; Stx1; Stx2; Stx2d; Stx2c; Stx2e; Stx2b; Stx; hemolytic uremic syndrome
Interests: endocytosis; intracellular trafficking; protein toxins; lectins; glycobiology; glycosphingolipids; lipid rafts; membrane compartmentalization; intracellular delivery; membrane translocation; immunotherapy; tumor targeting
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Special Issue in Toxins: Intracellular Traffic and Transport of Bacterial Protein Toxins
Special Issue in Toxins: Novel Pharmacological Inhibitors for Bacterial Protein Toxins
Special Issue in Toxins: Toxins Secretion and Translocation
Special Issue in Toxins: Novel Aspects of Bacterial AB5-Toxins
Interests: botulinum toxin; dystonia; blepharospasm; hemifacial spasm; tremor; tics
Interests: botulinum neurotoxins; inflammatory pain; neuropathic pain; immunohistochemistry; nerve injury; nerve regeneration; spinal cord; glial cells; analgesia; behavior; animal models of pain
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Interests: Helicobacter pylori; host-pathogen interactions in gastrointestinal tract; infection and gastrointestinal cancer; mucosal immunology
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Special Issue in Pathogens: Gut Microbiome
Special Issue in Toxins: H. pylori Virulence Factors in the Induction of Gastric Cancer
Interests: molecular tools and technologies for rapid; accurate; and sensitive detection and quantification of zoonotic pathogens and toxins in food; mechanisms of interactions between bacterial toxins and host cells; binding between antigen and antibody or receptors
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Topical Collection in Toxins: Rapid Detection of Bacterial Toxins
Interests: bacterial protein toxins; pore-forming toxins; cell membrane proteins/receptors; proteolytic enzymes
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2. Institute for Neuroscience, National Research Council, Via Ugo Bassi n. 58/B, 35121 Padova, Italy
Interests: neurotoxins; peripheral neurodegeneration; neuroregeneration
Interests: botulinum neurotoxin; ricin; tetanus neurotoxin; Clostridium perfringens; Clostridium botulinum; Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin (SE)
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Interests: therapeutic antibodies; botulinum neurotoxin; intoxication therapy; immune responses
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Interests: Bacillus cereus enterotoxins; emetic toxin; cereulide; Staphylococcal enterotoxins; Clostridium botulinum neurotoxins; Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin; shiga toxin; food safety; beauvericin; enniatins; food safety in Serbia
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Interests: bacterial toxin; host-pathogen interaction; antitoxin; protein engineering; structural biology; X-ray crystallography
Interests: bacteria-host interactions; bacterial toxins; Helicobacter pylori; gastric cancer
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Interests: Botulism; botulinum toxins
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Special Issue in Toxins: New Challenges and Insights in Human and Animal Botulism