Tuesday, 12th May The 3rd Prato Conference on Pore Forming Proteins 2015

• Immune evasion by staphylococcal toxins - Johannes van Strijp

The conference would like to acknowledge the support of:
Nanion Technologies GMBH and Elements SRL 

• Quantification of antibiotic uptake across bacterial cell walls - Mathias Winterhalter
• High-resolution electrophysiological analysis of pore-forming proteins using parallel lipid bilayer microarrays - Jan C. Behrends
• Structure and function of cell wall channels of mycolic acid containing members of the actinomycetes - Roland Benz
• Pore-forming proteins: Simultaneous structure-function methods & potential applications - Joseph W.F. Robertson

• Structural analysis of the complement membrane attack complex by Cryo-EM and single particle analysis - Doryen Bubeck
• Allosteric and stereoselective clamps govern protein translocation through the anthrax toxin protective antigen channel - Bryan A. Krantz
• Imaging the assembly of perfringolysin O - Michael J. Senior
• Stepwise visualization of membrane pore formation by suilysin, a bacterial cholesterol-dependent cytolysin - Bart Hoogenboom

• Comparative electrophysiological study of the interaction of single polymer molecules with aerolysin and α-hemolysin nanopores - Gerhard Baaken
• Structure-function analysis of the Staphylococcus aureus bicomponent toxin LukGH - Adriana Badarau
• De-convoluting the role of CD59 vs. cholesterol in the pathway to membrane penetration by the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin intermedilysin - Courtney Boyd
• Properties of Colicin U pores investigated using cysteine mutations - Tereza Dolejšová
• The nanoparticle sizing with α-toxin pores: A simple algorithm for construction of high resolution histograms - Radovan Fišer
• Understanding Tribolium castaneum immune response to Bacillus thuringiensis strains exhibiting differential activity - Carolina Rausell
• Bacillus thuringiensis Cry3Aa toxin functional receptors in Colorado potato beetle larval midgut - M. Dolores Real
• Interaction of fluorescent fusion protein ostreolysin A with artificial lipid membranes is modulated by lysophosphatidylcholine  - Maja Grundner
• Oligomeric states for arrested protein assembly in membrane pore formation - Adrian W. Hodel
• Pneumolysin disrupts the regulation of glutamate in the brain, leading to synaptic damage during Streptococcus pneumonaie meningitis - A.I. Iliev
• Examination of structural dynamics of perfringolysin O at pre-pore state using hydrogen-deuterium exchange coupled with mass spectrometry - Aleksandra Kacprzyk-Stokowiec
• Modification of undecapeptide in D4 domain destabilizes the structure of perfringolysin O - Magdalena Kulma
• How flexible is perforin? - Ruby Law
• Listeriolysin O-dependent destabilisation of host lysosomes during infection by Listeria monocytogenes - Julien Malet
• The structure of anticipated folding core of the RTX-proteins - Lucia Motlová
• Surfactin induced permeabilization of membrane varies with surfactin solvent and target membrane composition - Gabriela Seydlová
• A lipid bilayer array PCB-device for functionality screening of pore forming proteins - Ekaterina Zaitseva
• The cytolytic activity of vaginolysin strictly depends on cholesterol and is potentiated by human CD59 - Milda Zilnyte