Uptake and Trafficking of Protein Toxins

1. Two Feet on the Membrane: Uptake of Clostridial Neurotoxins
Andreas Rummel

2. Uptake of Clostridial Neurotoxins into Cells and Dissemination
Chloé Connan, Michel R. Popoff

3. Receptors and Binding Structures for Clostridium difficile Toxins A and B
Ralf Gerhard

4. Cell Entry of C3 Exoenzyme from Clostridium botulinum

Astrid Rohrbeck, Ingo Just

5. Receptor-Binding and Uptake of Binary Actin-ADP-Ribosylating Toxins
Panagiotis Papatheodorou, Klaus Aktories

6. Clostridial Binary Toxins: Basic Understandings that Include Cell Surface Binding and an Internal “Coup de Grâce”
Bradley G. Stiles

7. Host Cell Chaperones Hsp70/Hsp90 and Peptidyl-Prolyl Cis/Trans Isomerases Are Required for the Membrane Translocation of Bacterial ADP-Ribosylating Toxins
Katharina Ernst, Leonie Schnell, Holger Barth

8. Multivalent Inhibitors of Channel-Forming Bacterial Toxins
Goli Yamini, Ekaterina M. Nestorovich

9. Toxin Transport by A-B Type of Toxins in Eukaryotic Target Cells and Its Inhibition by Positively Charged Heterocyclic Molecules
Roland Benz, Holger Barth

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Medical Microbiology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Infectious Diseases