Maria B. Nowakowska

Botulinum neurotoxins exploit host digestive proteases to boost their oral toxicity via activating OrfXs/P47

Linfeng Gao, Maria B. Nowakowska, Katja Selby et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2025 · 16 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Toxicology +12

Construction and validation of safe Clostridium botulinum Group II surrogate strain producing inactive botulinum neurotoxin type E toxoid

Maria B. Nowakowska, Katja Selby, Adina Przykopanski et al. · Scientific Reports · 2022 · 15 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Genetics +17

Looking for the X Factor in Bacterial Pathogenesis: Association of orfX-p47 Gene Clusters with Toxin Genes in Clostridial and Non-Clostridial Bacterial Species

Maria B. Nowakowska, François P. Douillard, Miia Lindström · Toxins · 2019 · 13 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +15

CRISPR-Cas9-Based Toolkit for Clostridium botulinum Group II Spore and Sporulation Research

Anna Mertaoja, Maria B. Nowakowska, Gerald Mascher et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2021 · 12 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Microbiology +17

Crystal structures of <scp>OrfX1</scp>, <scp>OrfX2</scp> and the <scp>OrfX1</scp>–<scp>OrfX3</scp> complex from the <scp><i>orfX</i></scp> gene cluster of botulinum neurotoxin <scp>E1</scp>

Linfeng Gao, Kwok Ho Lam, Shun Liu et al. · FEBS Letters · 2023 · 11 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Toxicology +17