Antibody-Based Approaches in Bacterial Toxin Research
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Bacterial Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editors
Interests: therapeutic and diagnostic antibody development; ML/AI prediction of protein phenotype; protein engineering; display technology; flow cytometry; NGS
Interests: medical diagnostics; biosensors; biosurveillance; host-pathogen interactions; nucleic acids; immunoassays; lipoproteins
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development and application of antibody-based approaches have significantly advanced our understanding of bacterial toxins and their role in infectious disease. This Special Issue of Toxins, titled “Antibody-Based Approaches in Bacterial Toxin Research”, will bring together cutting-edge research articles and reviews that explore the diverse roles of antibodies in neutralizing, detecting, and characterizing bacterial toxins. With the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance, antibody-based therapeutics and diagnostics represent a promising frontier in infectious disease control and toxinology.
The contributions to this Special Issue span a range of methodologies, from monoclonal antibody generation and structural analysis to in vivo toxin neutralization studies and diagnostic innovations. Collectively, these works underscore the versatility of antibody technologies in both basic and translational toxin research.
We hope that this collection will serve as a valuable resource for researchers in immunology, microbiology, and toxinology, and will inspire further innovation in antibody-based strategies against bacterial toxins.
Dr. Antonietta M. Lillo
Dr. Jessica Kubicek-Sutherland
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- monoclonal antibodies
- toxin neutralization
- antibody engineering
- toxin detection
- antibody–toxin interactions
- bacterial pathogenesis
- host–pathogen interactions
- antibody specificity
- next-generation antibodies
- infectious diseases
- biodefense
- antimicrobial resistance
- translational immunology
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