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Overview

Istvan Toth is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in the domains of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Microbiology.

Their main research topics encompass:

  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Neonatal and Maternal Infections
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities

Among the recent scientific papers authored by the scientist or in close association are:

  • A Global Review on Short Peptides: Frontiers and Perspectives (2021), published in Molecules
  • Poly(amino acids) as a potent self-adjuvanting delivery system for peptide-based nanovaccines (2020), published in Science Advances
  • Cyclic Dipeptides: The Biological and Structural Landscape with Special Focus on the Anti-Cancer Proline-Based Scaffold (2021), published in Biomolecules
  • Developments in Vaccine Adjuvants (2021), published in Methods in Molecular Biology
  • Advances in Infectious Disease Vaccine Adjuvants (2022), published in Vaccines

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Vaccines (14 publications)
  • Methods in molecular biology (10 publications)
  • Pharmaceutics (5 publications)
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (4 publications)
  • ACS Infectious Diseases (3 publications)

Istvan Toth has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Mariusz Skwarczyński
  • Waleed M. Hussein
  • Zeinab G. Khalil
  • Rachel J. Stephenson
  • Ahmed O. Shalash

In addition to journal publications, the scientist has contributed to book publications, notably with a single book titled Peptide Conjugation, published in 2021 by Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • Nanoparticle-induced unfolding of fibrinogen promotes Mac-1 receptor activation and inflammation

    Zhou J. Deng;Mingtao Liang;Michael Monteiro;Istvan Toth

  • Peptide-based synthetic vaccines

    Mariusz Skwarczynski;Istvan Toth

  • Modern Subunit Vaccines: Development, Components, and Research Opportunities

    Peter Michael Moyle;Istvan Toth

  • Recent advances in self-assembled peptides: Implications for targeted drug delivery and vaccine engineering.

    Sharareh Eskandari;Thalia Guerin;Istvan Toth;Rachel J. Stephenson

  • A Global Review on Short Peptides: Frontiers and Perspectives.

    Vasso Apostolopoulos;Joanna Bojarska;Tsun-Thai Chai;Sherif Elnagdy

  • CALCIUM SIGNALLING IN BACTERIA

    V. Norris;Susan Grant;Primrose P.E. Freestone;J. Canvin

  • Glycosylation, an effective synthetic strategy to improve the bioavailability of therapeutic peptides

    Shayli Varasteh Moradi;Waleed M. Hussein;Pegah Varamini;Pavla Simerska

  • Chemical Methods for Peptide and Protein Production

    Saranya Chandrudu;Pavla Simerska;Istvan Toth

  • Recent progress in adjuvant discovery for peptide-based subunit vaccines

    Fazren Azmi;Abdullah Al Hadi Ahmad Fuaad;Mariusz Skwarczynski;Istvan Toth

  • Production of Cytolethal Distending Toxins by Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Human and Animal Sources: Establishment of the Existence of a New cdt Variant (Type IV)

    István Tóth;Fréderique Hérault;Lothar Beutin;Eric Oswald

  • Molecular interaction of poly(acrylic acid) gold nanoparticles with human fibrinogen.

    Zhou J. Deng;Mingtao Liang;Istvan Toth;Michael J. Monteiro

  • Cellular Uptake of Densely Packed Polymer Coatings on Gold Nanoparticles

    Mingtao Liang;I-Chun Lin;Michael R. Whittaker;Rodney F. Minchin

  • Peptides As Therapeutics with Enhanced Bioactivity

    D. Goodwin;P. Simerska;I. Toth

  • Recent advances in peptide-based subunit nanovaccines

    Mariusz Skwarczynski;Istvan Toth

  • DNA transfection and transfected cell viability using amphipathic asymmetric dendrimers.

    Dipen S Shah;T Sakthivel;Istvan Toth;Alexander T Florence

  • A Novel Chemical Approach to Drug Delivery: Lipidic Amino Acid Conjugates

    Istvan Toth

  • Polyacrylate Dendrimer Nanoparticles: A Self-Adjuvanting Vaccine Delivery System

    Mariusz Skwarczynski;Mehfuz Zaman;Carl N. Urbani;I-Chun Lin

  • Dendrimer delivery of an anti-VEGF oligonucleotide into the eye: a long-term study into inhibition of laser-induced CNV, distribution, uptake and toxicity

    R J Marano;I Toth;N Wimmer;M Brankov

  • Self-adjuvanting lipopeptide vaccines.

    Peter M Moyle;Istvan Toth

  • Improved resistance to serum oxidation in Gilbert's syndrome: A mechanism for cardiovascular protection

    Andrew Cameron Bulmer;Joanne T. Blanchfield;Istvan Toth;Robert G. Fassett

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Good
Michael F. Good Griffith University
Robert J. Capon
Robert J. Capon University of Queensland
Michael J. Monteiro
Michael J. Monteiro University of Queensland
Gábor L. Kovács
Gábor L. Kovács University of Pecs
Per Artursson
Per Artursson Uppsala University
Zhongfan Jia
Zhongfan Jia Flinders University
Rodney F. Minchin
Rodney F. Minchin University of Queensland
György Kéri
György Kéri Semmelweis University
Eric Oswald
Eric Oswald Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Paul F. Alewood
Paul F. Alewood University of Queensland

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