Future Developments: Engineering the Neurotoxin

Understanding the structure and molecular basis of neurotoxin function has opened up opportunities to engineer novel therapeutic proteins that utilise the neurotoxins and neurotoxin domains. These opportunities and the status of their development are reviewed in this chapter, which brings together the findings detailed in the companion volume to this book, KA Foster (ed) Molecular Aspects of Botulinum Neurotoxin, Springer, NewYork, and shows how they can be applied for the development of innovative therapeutics and research tools.