Antibiotic resistance is a significant emerging health threat. Exacerbating this problem is the
overprescription of antibiotics as well as a lack of development of new antibacterial agents …

Antibiotic resistance is a significant emerging health threat. Exacerbating this problem is the
overprescription of antibiotics as well as a lack of development of new antibacterial agents …

The rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains has prompted efforts to find new
and more efficacious treatment strategies. Targeting virulence factors produced by …

Microbes employ a large diversity of toxins to kill competing microbes or eukaryotic host
cells. Polymorphic toxins are a class of protein toxins abundant in Nature and secreted …

Bacterial pathogens produce protein toxins to influence host–pathogen interactions and tip
the outcome of these encounters toward the benefit of the pathogen. Protein toxins modify …

Pathogenic bacteria produce diverse protein toxins to disturb the host's defenses. This
includes the opening of epithelial barriers to establish bacterial growth in deeper tissues of …

Microbes employ a large diversity of toxins to kill competing microbes or eukaryotic host
cells. Polymorphic toxins are a class of protein toxins abundant in Nature and secreted …

Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), proteins secreted by the bacteria genus Clostridium,
represent a group of extremely lethal toxins and a potential bioterrorism threat. As the …

Although it is difficult to arise at a consensus for the number of bacterial species on earth, it
is well understood it represents one of the most diverse groups of living organisms and, from …

Bacteria live in communities where strains compete with each other by deploying an arsenal
of antibacterial toxins. While the past decade revealed the vast array of antibacterial toxins …