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Society of General Microbiology--2009 spring meeting.

Bacterial toxin YafQ is an endoribonuclease that associates with the ribosome and blocks translation elongation through sequence-specific and frame-dependent mRNA cleavage.

Improved purification process for cholera toxin and its application to the quantification of residual toxin in cholera vaccines.

Anti-hemorrhagic activity of four Brazilian vegetable species against Bothrops jararaca venom.

Traitements antitoxiniques et pneumopathies nécrosantes àStaphylococcus aureus sécréteurs de leucocidine de Panton-Valentine

Role of Anthrax Toxins in Dissemination, Disease Progression, and Induction of Protective Adaptive Immunity in the Mouse Aerosol Challenge Model

Small toxic proteins and the antisense RNAs that repress them.

Mouse model of hemolytic-uremic syndrome caused by endotoxin-free Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) and protection from lethal outcome by anti-Stx2 antibody.

Genetic characterization of two putative toxin-antitoxin systems on cryptic plasmids from Bacillus thuringiensis strain YBT-1520.

A novel toxin-antitoxin operon talA/B from the Gram-positive bacterium Leifsonia xyli subsp. cynodontis.

Mannheimia haemolytica chimeric protein vaccine composed of the major surface-exposed epitope of outer membrane lipoprotein PlpE and the neutralizing epitope of leukotoxin.

The art of selective killing: plasmid toxin/antitoxin systems and their technological applications.

Induction of high antitoxin titers against tetanus toxoid in rabbits by intranasal immunization with dextran microspheres.

How protein recognizes ladder-like polycyclic ethers. Interactions between ciguatoxin (CTX3C) fragments and its specific antibody 10C9.

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of bisubstrate analog inhibitors of cholera toxin.

Crystal structure of PAE0151 from Pyrobaculum aerophilum, a PIN-domain (VapC) protein from a toxin-antitoxin operon.

Chromosomal toxin-antitoxin systems may act as antiaddiction modules.

Complete sequence of Enterococcus faecium pVEF3 and the detection of an omega-epsilon-zeta toxin-antitoxin module and an ABC transporter.

Structural Mechanism of Transcriptional Autorepression of the Escherichia coli RelB/RelE Antitoxin/Toxin Module

Open-label, dose escalation phase I study in healthy volunteers to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of a human monoclonal antibody to Clostridium difficile toxin A.