Omics Techniques for Toxins Research
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2019) | Viewed by 10407
Special Issue Editor
Interests: proteomics; foodborne pathogens; mechanisms of bacterial resistance; extracellular vesicles
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time. Each year in the U.S., at least 2 million people get an antibiotic-resistant infection, and at least 23,000 people die (https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/index.html). In Europe, we are facing a similar situation. Sepsis and septic shock are frequent causes of deaths as a consequence of infection with resistant bacteria. Exotoxins of clinically relevant bacteria such as hemolysins can significantly impair organ functions.
On the other hand, there are more as 250 microbial pathogens known to cause food-borne illnesses. Accidents with food of mostly animal origin, and traditional fermented food products, have recently accompanied numerous cases that have occurred as a consequence of contaminations of fresh and processed food.
Microbial infection may also cause contamination with mycotoxins, bacteria, and other toxins in food, and sometimes in the environment. Omics methods such as proteomics, peptidomics, and metabolomics techniques are newly developed tolls that can help to solve the abovementioned problems. Genome, proteome, lipidome, and metabolome analyses of hosts and pathogens and their metabolites in combination with already established laboratory analyses provide reliable information about pathogen activities during infection, outbreaks of disease, and healing periods. Importantly, functionally relevant proteins and products of metabolism are identified in order to trace abovementioned diseases. Fast diagnosis is an additional critical point and in-vivo genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data can be crucial to guide further functional analysis efficiently. It raises the importance of high-throughput omics analyses and the detection of toxins and other biomarkers of their action during disease progress that will be one of key points in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Djuro Josic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- omics
- genomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- bacterial toxins
- mycotoxins
- sepsis
- septic shock
- food poisoning
- high-throughput analyses
