Victoria Ariel Bjørnestad

• Nielsen, Josefine Eilsø; Bjørnestad, Victoria Ariel & Lund, Reidar (2018). Resolving the structural interactions between antimicrobial peptides and lipid membranes using small-angle scattering methods: The case of indolicidin. Soft Matter.  ISSN 1744-683X.  14(43), s 8750- 8763 . doi: 10.1039/c8sm01888j
• Heggelund, Julie Elisabeth; Burschowsky, Daniel; Bjørnestad, Victoria Ariel; Hodnik, Vesna; Anderluh, Gregor & Krengel, Ute (2016). High-Resolution Crystal Structures Elucidate the Molecular Basis of Cholera Blood Group Dependence. PLoS Pathogens.  ISSN 1553-7366.  12(4), s e1005567 . doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005567 Full text in Research Archive.
• Heggelund, Julie Elisabeth; Bjørnestad, Victoria Ariel & Krengel, Ute (2015). Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxins and beyond, In Joseph E Alouf; Daniel Ladant & Michel R Popoff (ed.),  The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins, Fourth Edition.  Elsevier.  ISBN 978-0-12-800188-2.  Section II, chapter 7.  s 195 - 229 Show summary

  After a brief introduction highlighting the importance of the topic today, this chapter gives a historic review of cholera through the ages, including the discovery of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium and identification of its major virulence factor, the cholera toxin. It proceeds by describing homologous toxins of this growing family, such as the heat-labile enterotoxin from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains (ETEC), which causes traveler’s diarrhea, followed by the description of the toxins’ three-dimensional (3D) structures and their interaction with intestinal receptors. The next section is devoted to the biological mechanisms by which cholera toxin and E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin mediate diarrhea. Finally, the text describes the toxins’ gene organization, regulation, and biogenesis, how toxins use environmental signals to optimize their biological effects, and how the cholera toxin and the toxin co-regulated pilus act together to cause disease. It then concludes by highlighting the recent advances and remaining mysteries, and by providing a link to toxin-based drug design.

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• Bjørnestad, Victoria Ariel & Lund, Reidar (2019). The kinetic pathways of the solubilisation of lipid membranes by detergents seen by SAXS.
• Bjørnestad, Victoria Ariel & Lund, Reidar (2018). Liposomes as a model system for the study of surface active peptides. Show summary

  Liposomer som modellsystem for studier av overflateaktive peptider

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