Pore-forming peptides and protein toxins,v. 5.

PART 1 Pore-forming proteins 1 1 Staphylococcal bicomponent leucotoxins, mechanism of action, impact on cells and contribution to virulence 3 GILLES PRةVOST, GIANFRANCO MENESTRINA, DIDIER A. COLIN, SANDRA WERNER, STEPHEN BRONNER, MAURO DALLA SERRA, LAMIN BABA MOUSSA, MANUELA CORAIOLA, ALAIN GRAVET AND HENRI MONTEIL 2 The formation of ion-permeable channels by RTX-toxins in lipid bilayer membranes: basis for their biological activity 27 ROLAND BENZ 3 Properties of the monomeric and the pentameric Pseudomonas cytotoxin 49 ANNETTE SLIWINSKI-KORELL, TAKAKO NAKADA, DIETMAR LINDER, MONICA LINDER, SABINE GEIS, MARITA LANGEWISCHE AND FRIEDER LUTZ 4 Helicobacter pylori vacuolating toxin VacA: channel-forming properties and cell intoxication 60 MARIO ZORATTI, FRANCESCO TOMBOLA, CESARE MONTECUCCO, LUCANTONIO DEBELLIS AND EMANUELE PAPINI 5 Delta-endotoxin mode of action 76 DORON GERBER 6 Functional studies of helix
-5 region from Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab -endotoxin 90 MARIO SOBERON, RIGOBERTO V. PEREZ, MARIA E. NUNEZ-VALDEZ, ISABEL GOMEZ, JORGE SANCHEZ, LEOPOLDO GUERECA AND ALEJANDRA BRAVO 7 Colicin channels and protein translocation: parallels with diphtheria toxin 102 STEPHEN L. SLATIN AND PAUL K. KIENKER 8 Actinoporins, pore-forming toxins of sea anemones (Actiniaria) 132 GREGOR ANDERLUH AND PETER MAC. EK PART 2 Pore-forming peptides 149 9 Structural and charge requirements for antimicrobial peptide insertion into biological and model membranes 151 HONG XIA ZHAO, ANDREA C. RINALDI, ANNA RUFO, ARGANTE BOZZI, PAAVO K. J. KINNUNEN AND ANTONIO DI GIULIO 10 Pardaxins . pore-forming neurotoxins as pharmacological tools in dissecting neurotransmitter exocytosis and neurotoxicity 178 PHILIP LAZAROVICI 11 Cecropin.melittin hybrid peptides as versatile templates in the development of membrane-active antibiotic agents 209 LUIS RIVAS AND DAVID ANDREU 12 The syringomycins: lipodepsipeptide pore formers from plant bacterium Pseudomonas syringae 260 JON Y. TAKEMOTO, JOSEPH G. BRAND, YURI A. KAULIN, VALERY V. MALEV, LUDMILA V. SCHAGINA AND KATALIN BLASKO 13 Molecular mechanisms of action of syringopeptins, antifungal peptides from Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae 272 MAURO DALLA SERRA, GIANFRANCO MENESTRINA, ARMANDO CARPANETO, FRANCO GAMBALE, VINCENZO FOGLIANO AND ALESSANDRO BALLIO 14 The role of amyloid peptide channels in amyloid disease 296 YUTAKA HIRAKURA, RUSTAM AZIMOV, RUSHANA AZIMOVA, MENG-CHIN LIN AND BRUCE L. KAGAN Index 309AND YECHIEL SHAI