Cytoskeleton as an emerging target of anthrax toxins

Toxins

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 83-97

  Trescos, Yannick ^a,b   Tournier, Jean Nicolas ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

^b Hôpital Inter Armées du Val de Grâce   (France)

Author keywords

Actin; Anthrax toxins; Cytoskeleton; Phagocytosis; Vascular integrity

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DISRUPTION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84857667119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins4020083     Document Type: Article

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