Anna Piontek

Reversible opening of the blood-brain barrier by claudin-5-binding variants of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin's claudin-binding domain

Winfried Neuhaus, Anna Piontek, Jonas Protze et al. · Biomaterials · 2018 · 70 citations

Microbial Toxin, Reversible Opening, Microbial Pathogens +7

Directed structural modification of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin to enhance binding to claudin-5

Jonas Protze, Miriam Eichner, Anna Piontek et al. · Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences · 2014 · 57 citations · Full text

Microbial Toxin, Biochemistry, Natural Sciences +7

In Colon Epithelia, Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin Causes Focal Leaks by Targeting Claudins Which are Apically Accessible Due to Tight Junction Derangement

Miriam Eichner, Christian Augustin, Anja Fromm et al. · The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2017 · 53 citations · Full text

Specific binding of a mutated fragment of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin to endothelial claudin-5 and its modulation of cerebral vascular permeability

Zhuangbin Liao, Zhenguo Yang, Anna Piontek et al. · Neuroscience · 2016 · 45 citations

Inflammation, Mutated Fragment, Cerebral Vascular Permeability +9

Assembly of Tight Junction Strands: Claudin-10b and Claudin-3 Form Homo-Tetrameric Building Blocks that Polymerise in a Channel-Independent Manner

Caroline Hempel, Jonas Protze, E. Altun et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 2020 · 44 citations

Engineering, Cross-link, Self-assembly +6