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The bacterial toxin toolkit
Pathogenic bacteria and higher eukaryotes have spent a long time together, leading to a precise understanding of one another's way of functioning. Through rapid evolution, bacteria have engineered increasingly sophisticated weapons to hit exactly where it hurts, interfering with fundamental host functions. However, toxins are not only useful to the bacteria - they have also become an essential asset for life scientists, who can now use them as toolkits to explore cellular processes
Type
review article
Authors
Publication date
2001
Published in
Volume
2
Issue
7
Start page
530
End page
7
Note
Author address: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX, UK
Peer reviewed
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February 2, 2009
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