Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Microbial toxins in the green world

Microbial toxins in the green world EDITORIAL DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12010 Toxins are defined as poisonous substances, proteins or In a second contribution, Dittmann et al. (2012) give secondary metabolites, which can be produced by an update on cyanobacterial toxins which are produced prokaryotic or eukaryotic organisms and which can cause by various species of cyanobacteria and which cause disease or even have lethal effects on other organisms recurrent harmful algal blooms each summer, resulting in after contact or uptake. Toxins of microbial origin serve severe health problems or even death in humans. The different functions in various environments. Terrestrial biosynthetic pathways of various cyanobacterial toxins are and marine predators may use toxins to kill their prey. described, including those of nonribosomal peptides, Bacteria and fungi may produce antimicrobial compounds alkaloids and other secondary metabolites. to compete for nutrients or to occupy particular ecological The last three reviews cover fungal toxins. The first niches. Necrotrophic plant pathogens often produce review by Tsuge et al. (2012) describes the production of toxins to kill plant tissues in advance of colonizing them, host-selective toxins (HSTs) produced by the plant patho- whereas obligate biotrophic pathogens are dependent on genic fungus Alternaria alternata. HSTs are low- living host cells and have often http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png FEMS Microbiology Reviews Oxford University Press

Microbial toxins in the green world

FEMS Microbiology Reviews , Volume 37 (1) – Jan 10, 2013

Loading next page...
 
/lp/oxford-university-press/microbial-toxins-in-the-green-world-mAutXbb2cK

References (5)

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
© 2012 Federation of European Microbiological Societies.
ISSN
0168-6445
eISSN
1574-6976
DOI
10.1111/1574-6976.12010
pmid
23231344
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

EDITORIAL DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12010 Toxins are defined as poisonous substances, proteins or In a second contribution, Dittmann et al. (2012) give secondary metabolites, which can be produced by an update on cyanobacterial toxins which are produced prokaryotic or eukaryotic organisms and which can cause by various species of cyanobacteria and which cause disease or even have lethal effects on other organisms recurrent harmful algal blooms each summer, resulting in after contact or uptake. Toxins of microbial origin serve severe health problems or even death in humans. The different functions in various environments. Terrestrial biosynthetic pathways of various cyanobacterial toxins are and marine predators may use toxins to kill their prey. described, including those of nonribosomal peptides, Bacteria and fungi may produce antimicrobial compounds alkaloids and other secondary metabolites. to compete for nutrients or to occupy particular ecological The last three reviews cover fungal toxins. The first niches. Necrotrophic plant pathogens often produce review by Tsuge et al. (2012) describes the production of toxins to kill plant tissues in advance of colonizing them, host-selective toxins (HSTs) produced by the plant patho- whereas obligate biotrophic pathogens are dependent on genic fungus Alternaria alternata. HSTs are low- living host cells and have often

Journal

FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOxford University Press

Published: Jan 10, 2013

There are no references for this article.