Microbiology & Immunology

Recent Publications

• A Novel High-Potency Tetanus Vaccine.

  (Przedpelski A, Tepp WH, Pellett S, Johnson EA, Barbieri JT.) mBio. 2020 08 11;11(4) PMID: 32788381 PMCID: PMC7439469 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089602052 08/14/2020

• Tetanus Toxin cis-Loop Contributes to Light-Chain Translocation.

  (Zuverink M, Bluma M, Barbieri JT.) mSphere. 2020 05 06;5(3) PMID: 32376703 PMCID: PMC7203457 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85084398090 05/08/2020

• Resolving the Molecular Steps in Clostridial Neurotoxin Light Chain Translocation.

  (Zuverink M, Barbieri JT.) J Exp Neurol. 2020;1(4):123-134 PMID: 33615314 PMCID: PMC7894615 02/23/2021

• Staphylococcal Superantigen-like protein 11 mediates neutrophil adhesion and motility arrest, a unique bacterial toxin action.

  (Chen C, Yang C, Barbieri JT.) Sci Rep. 2019 03 12;9(1):4211 PMID: 30862940 PMCID: PMC6414612 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85062821069 03/14/2019

• Exotoxins

  (Blum FC, Barbieri JT.) Encyclopedia of Microbiology. 1 January 2019:197-205 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079533166 01/01/2019

• Light Chain Diversity among the Botulinum Neurotoxins.

  (Gardner AP, Barbieri JT.) Toxins (Basel). 2018 07 02;10(7) PMID: 30004421 PMCID: PMC6070880 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85049650896 07/14/2018

• The Light Chain Defines the Duration of Action of Botulinum Toxin Serotype A Subtypes.

  (Pellett S, Bradshaw M, Tepp WH, Pier CL, Whitemarsh RCM, Chen C, Barbieri JT, Johnson EA.) mBio. 2018 03 27;9(2) PMID: 29588398 PMCID: PMC5874905 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85046411664 03/29/2018

• Enhancing toxin-based vaccines against botulism.

  (Przedpelski A, Tepp WH, Zuverink M, Johnson EA, Pellet S, Barbieri JT.) Vaccine. 2018 02 01;36(6):827-832 PMID: 29307477 PMCID: PMC5820173 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85039912971 01/09/2018

• Detection of ADP-Ribosylating Bacterial Toxins.

  (Chen C, Barbieri JT.) Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1813:287-295 PMID: 30097876 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85051506237 08/12/2018

• Protein Toxins That Utilize Gangliosides as Host Receptors.

  (Zuverink M, Barbieri JT.) Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci. 2018;156:325-354 PMID: 29747819 PMCID: PMC6243200 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85043989897 05/12/2018

• Protein Structure Facilitates High-Resolution Immunological Mapping.

  (Zuverink M, Barbieri JT.) Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2017 Dec;24(12) PMID: 29046310 PMCID: PMC5717179 10/20/2017

• When Escherichia coli doesn't fit the mold: A pertussis-like toxin with altered specificity.

  (Chen C, Barbieri JT.) J Biol Chem. 2017 09 08;292(36):15159-15160 PMID: 28887436 PMCID: PMC5592690 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85029216082 09/10/2017