Ricin and Shiga Toxins

1. Interaction of Ricin and Shiga Toxins with Ribosomes
Nilgun E. Tumer, Xiao-Ping Li

2. How Ricin and Shiga Toxin Reach the Cytosol of Target Cells: Retrotranslocation from the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Robert A. Spooner, J. Michael Lord

3. Ricin and Shiga Toxins: Effects on Host Cell Signal Transduction
Dakshina M. Jandhyala, Cheleste M. Thorpe, Bruce Magun

4. Pathogenesis of Shiga-Toxin Producing Escherichia coli

Angela Melton-Celsa, Krystle Mohawk, Louise Teel, Alison O’Brien

5. Shiga Toxin Pathogenesis: Kidney Complications and Renal Failure
Tom G. Obrig, Diana Karpman

6. The Induction of Apoptosis by Shiga Toxins and Ricin
Vernon L. Tesh

7. Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Ricin and Shiga Toxins
Paul G. Wahome, Jon D. Robertus, Nicholas J. Mantis

8. Immunity to Ricin: Fundamental Insights into Toxin–Antibody Interactions
Joanne M. O’Hara, Anastasiya Yermakova, Nicholas J. Mantis

9. Animal Models of Ricin Toxicosis
Chad J. Roy, Kejing Song, Satheesh K. Sivasubramani, Donald J. Gardner, Seth H. Pincus

10. Ricin Vaccine Development
Joan E. Smallshaw, Ellen S. Vitetta

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology