Novel Pharmacological Inhibitors for Bacterial Protein Toxins

Novel Pharmacological Inhibitors for Bacterial Protein Toxins

Public Health

Many medically relevant bacteria cause severe human and animal diseases because they produce and release protein toxins that target mammalian cells. Because the toxin-induced cell damage is the reason for the clinical symptoms, the targeted pharmacological inhibition of the cytotoxic mode of action of bacterial toxins should prevent or cure the respective toxin-associated disease. Toxin inhibitors might be beneficial when the toxin acts in the absence of the producing bacteria (e.g., food poisoning), but also in combination with antibiotics in infectious diseases when the toxin-producing bacteria are present.

Holger Barth

https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/314

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

2017

Baihaqi

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