Bacterial Exotoxins: How bacteria fight the immune system

• Main Author: Inka Sastalla (auth)
• Other Authors: Katharina F. Kubatzky (auth), Denise M. Monack (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Adaptive Immunity; Super antigen; Immune Evasion; Quorum Sensing; Bacterial Toxins; innate immune response; infectious diseases; Bacterial effector protein
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The goal of this research topic was to gather current knowledge on the interaction of bacterial exotoxins and effector proteins with the host immune system. The following 16 research and review articles in this special issue describe mechanisms of immune modification and evasion and provide an overv...