Microbial Protein Toxins

Microbial Protein Toxins (Topics in Current Genetics)
by Manfred J. Schmitt (Editor), Raffael Schaffrath (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 237 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 24, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3540235620

Book Description
Since the initial establishment of Robert Koch’s postulates in the nineteenth century, microbial protein toxins have been recognized as a major factor of bacterial and fungal virulence. An increasing number of proteins produced and secreted by various bacteria, yeasts and plants are extremely toxic and most of them developed remarkably „intelligent" strategies to enter, to penetrate and to finally kill a eukaryotic target cell by modifying or blocking essential cellular components.
This book describes the strategies employed by protein toxins to render their pro- and eukaryotic producers a selective growth advantage over competitors. In providing an up-to-date overview on the mode of protein toxin actions, it accommodates biomedically and biologically relevant toxin model systems. As a result, it significantly broadens our perspective on biochemical architecture and molecular ploy behind the lethal principles of pro- and eukaryotic toxins.

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Fundamental Virology

Fundamental Virology
by David M Knipe (Author), Peter M Howley (Author)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 1408 pages
* Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 4th edition (August 15, 2001)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0781718333

Book Description:
Designed for graduate students and researchers in all biological and biomedical sciences, this volume brings together the basic science chapters from the two-volume Fourth Edition of Fields Virology. These 37 chapters comprise a comprehensive text and reference on the concepts and research techniques of contemporary virology and the biochemistry, molecular biology, and replication of all viruses. The first part of the book covers basic concepts of general virology and the second part focuses on specific virus families.

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