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 …

Staphylococcal manipulation of host immune responses

V Thammavongsa, HK Kim, D Missiakas… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial commensal of the human nares and skin, is a frequent
cause of soft tissue and bloodstream infections. A hallmark of staphylococcal infections is …

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 …

Staphylococcal enterotoxins

IV Pinchuk, EJ Beswick, VE Reyes - Toxins, 2010 - mdpi.com
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a Gram positive bacterium that is carried by about one
third of the general population and is responsible for common and serious diseases. These …

Exotoxins of Staphylococcus aureus

MM Dinges, PM Orwin… - Clinical microbiology …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
This article reviews the literature regarding the structure and function of two types of
exotoxins expressed by Staphylococcus aureus, pyrogenic toxin superantigens (PTSAgs) …

The atomic structure of protein-protein recognition sites

LL Conte, C Chothia, J Janin - Journal of molecular biology, 1999 - Elsevier
The non-covalent assembly of proteins that fold separately is central to many biological
processes, and differs from the permanent macromolecular assembly of protein subunits in …

Staphylococcal enterotoxins

N Balaban, A Rasooly - International journal of food microbiology, 2000 - Elsevier
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen that produces a wide array of toxins,
thus causing various types of disease symptoms. Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs), a …

The pockets guide to HLA class I molecules

AT Nguyen, C Szeto, S Gras - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are cell-surface proteins that present peptides to T cells.
These peptides are bound within the peptide binding cleft of HLA, and together as a …

Mechanism of CDK activation revealed by the structure of a cyclinA-CDK2 complex

PD Jeffrey, AA Russo, K Polyak, E Gibbs, J Hurwitz… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
The crystal structure of the human cyclinA-cyclin-dependent kinase2 (CDK2)-ATP complex
has been determined at 2.3 A resolution. CyclinA binds to one side of CDK2's catalytic cleft …

Ligand recognition by αβ T cell receptors

MM Davis, JJ Boniface, Z Reich, D Lyons… - Annual review of …, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract While still incomplete, the first data concerning the biochemistry of T cell receptor–
ligand interactions in cell-free systems seem to have considerable predictive value …