title: Microbial toxins and the glycosylation of rho family GTPases.
abstract: Large clostridial cytotoxins act on cells by glycosylating low molecular mass GTPases using nucleotide-sugars as the sugar donor. These toxins are important virulence factors in human and animal diseases, but are also valuable cell biology tools. Recent findings shed some light on their mode of action and provide new insights into the structure/activity relationship of these bacterial toxins.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 5, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Busch
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aktories
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001905:Botulinum Toxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006031:Glycosylation; D016695:Glycosyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D016695:Glycosyltransferases; D001905:Botulinum Toxins; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases