Staphylococcus aureus Secreted Toxins and Extracellular Enzymes

K Tam, VJ Torres - Microbiology spectrum, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus aureus is a formidable pathogen capable of causing infections in different
sites of the body in a variety of vertebrate animals, including humans and livestock. A major …

Staphylococcus aureus and its food poisoning toxins: characterization and outbreak investigation

JA Hennekinne, ML De Buyser… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) is one of the most common food-borne diseases and
results from the ingestion of staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) preformed in food by …

Staphylococcal and streptococcal superantigen exotoxins

AR Spaulding, W Salgado-Pabón… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
This review begins with a discussion of the large family of Staphylococcus aureus and beta-
hemolytic streptococcal pyrogenic toxin T lymphocyte superantigens from structural and …

Food Poisoning and Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxins

MÁ Argudín, MC Mendoza, MR Rodicio - Toxins, 2010 - mdpi.com
Staphylococcus aureus produces a wide variety of toxins including staphylococcal
enterotoxins (SEs; SEA to SEE, SEG to SEI, SER to SET) with demonstrated emetic activity …

The bacterial superantigen and superantigen‐like proteins

JD Fraser, T Proft - Immunological reviews, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The bacterial superantigens are protein toxins that bind to major histocompatibility complex
class II and T‐cell receptor to stimulate large numbers of T cells. The majority are produced …

Staphylococcal superantigens in colonization and disease

SX Xu, JK McCormick - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Superantigens (SAgs) are a family of potent immunostimulatory exotoxins known to be
produced by only a few bacterial pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus. More than …

T cell immunity to bacterial pathogens: mechanisms of immune control and bacterial evasion

FR Shepherd, JE McLaren - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The human body frequently encounters harmful bacterial pathogens and employs immune
defense mechanisms designed to counteract such pathogenic assault. In the adaptive …

Survey of the year 2007 commercial optical biosensor literature

RL Rich, DG Myszka - Journal of Molecular Recognition: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In 2007, 1179 papers were published that involved the application of optical biosensors.
Reported developments in instrument hardware, assay design, and immobilization …

Toxins from bacteria

JS Henkel, MR Baldwin, JT Barbieri - Molecular, Clinical and …, 2010 - Springer
Bacterial toxins damage the host at the site of bacterial infection or distant from the site.
Bacterial toxins can be single proteins or oligomeric protein complexes that are organized …

Update on molecular diversity and multipathogenicity of staphylococcal superantigen toxins

DL Hu, S Li, R Fang, HK Ono - Animal Diseases, 2021 - Springer
Staphylococcal superantigen (SAg) toxins are the most notable virulence factors associated
with Staphylococcus aureus, which is a pathogen associated with serious community and …