Bacterial Toxins Methods and Protocols

The interest of investigators across a broad spectrum of scientific dis- plines has been steadily stimulated by the field of bacterial toxin research, an area that makes use of a large variety of biological, chemical, physicochemical, and medically oriented approaches. Researchers studying bacterial...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holst, Otto (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ Humana 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Methods in Molecular Biology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Bacterial Protein Toxins
  • 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 Structure Determination of Staphylococcal Pore-Forming Toxins
  • The Use of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer to Detect Conformational Changes in Protein Toxins
  • Site-Directed Spin Labeling of Proteins
  • 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 ?-Gi Proteins by Pertussis Toxin
  • Phage Libraries for Generation of Anti-Botulinum scFv Antibodies
  • T-Cell Cytotoxicity Assays for Studying the Functional Interaction Between the Superantigen Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A and T-Cell Receptors
  • In Vitro Physiological Studies on Clostridial Neurotoxins
  • 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
  • Deacylation of Lipopolysaccharides and Isolation of Oligosaccharide Phosphates
  • Electrophysiological Measurements on Reconstituted Outer Membranes