Diversity and impact of prokaryotic toxins on aquatic environments: A review

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2359-2410

  Valério, Elisabete ^a   Chaves, Sandra ^b   Tenreiro, Rogério ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Diversity of toxins; Impact of toxins; Molecular mechanisms; Prokaryotes

Indexed keywords

ACT TOXIN; ANATOXIN A; ANATOXIN A(S); ANTILLATOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BARBAMIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLIX TOXIN; CURACIN A; CYANOTOXIN; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; CYTOTOXIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; EXOA TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; HEPATOTOXIN; HOMOANATOXIN A; JAMAICAMIDE A; JAMAICAMIDE B; KALKITOXIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; MICROCYSTIN; NEUROTOXIN; NODULARIN; REPEATS IN TOXIN EXOPROTEIN; RTXA1 TOXIN; SAXITOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VEROTOXIN;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ALLERGENICITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CAMPYLOBACTER; CELL DAMAGE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTOXICITY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXIN STRUCTURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; HUMANS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 79952097439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2102359     Document Type: Review

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