Bacterial toxins : methods and protocols / edited by Otto Holst.

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Other Authors: Holst, Otto
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, ©2000.
Series:Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 145.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bacterial protein toxins: an overview
  • Purification of clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin
  • Shiga toxins
  • Isolation and detection of microcystins and nodularins, cyanobacterial peptide hepatotoxins
  • Genetic construction, expression, and characterization of diphtheria toxin-based growth factor fusion proteins
  • Structure-function analysis of cysteine-engineered entomopathogenic toxins
  • Use of fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy for secondary structrue determination of staphyloccoccal pore-forming toxins
  • The use of fluorescence resonance energy transfer to detect conformational changes in protein toxins
  • Site-directed spin labeling of proteins: applications to diphtheria toxin
  • Characterization of molecular properties of pore-forming toxins with planar lipid bilayers
  • Determination of affinity and kinetic rate constants using surface plasmon resonance
  • ADP-ribosylation of α-Gi proteins by pertusis toxin: positional dissection of acceptor sites using membrane anchored synthetic peptides
  • Phage libraries for generation of anti-botulinum scFv antibiodies
  • T-cell cytotoxicity assays for studing the functional itneraction between the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A and T-cell receptors
  • In vitro physiological studies on clostridial neurotoxins: biological modesl and procedures for extracellular and intracellular application of toxins
  • The biology of endotoxin
  • Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of lipopolysaccharides
  • Applications of combined capillary electrophoresis-electrospray mass spectrometry in the characterization of short-chain lipopolysaccharides: haemophilus influenzae
  • Deacylation of lipopolysaccharides and isolation of oligosaccharide phosphates
  • Electrophysiological measurement on reconstituted outer membranes.