Title: Cellular microbiology /
Authors: Cossart, Pascale.
Publisher: ASM Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Virulence.; Infection.; Host-bacteria relationships.; Pathology, Cellular.; Bacteria pathology.; Eukaryotic Cells microbiology; Immunity, Cellular; Host-Parasite Interactions; Virulence; Virulence (Microbiology); Bacteria pathogenicity
Contents: Microbial pathogens : an overview / Pascale Cossart and Marc Lecuit -- Cell biology : an overview / Patrice Boquet -- Extracellular matrix and host cell surfaces : potential sites of pathogen interaction / Klaus T. Preissner and G. Singh Chhatwal -- Bacterial adherence to cell surfaces and extracellular matrix / B. Brett Finlay and Michael Caparon -- Molecular basis for cell adhesion and adhesion-mediated signaling / Benjamin Geiger [and others] -- Cell adhesion molecules and bacterial pathogens / Guy Tran Van Nhieu and Philippe J. Sansonetti -- Membrane trafficking in the endocytic pathway of eukaryotic cells / Raluca Gagescu and Jean Gruenberg -- Where to stay inside the cell : a homesteader's guide to intracellular parasitism / David G. Russell -- Actin filaments : self-assembly and regulatory interactions / Frederick S. Southwick and Daniel L. Purich -- Bacterial manipulation of the host cell cytoskeleton / Sandra J. McCallum and Julie A. Theriot -- Bacterial toxins / Rino Rappuoli and Marigrazia Pizza -- Bacterial protein toxins as tools in cell biology and pharmacology / Klaus Aktories -- Type III secretion systems in animal- and plant-interacting bacteria / Kurt Schesser, Matthew S. Francis, Åke Forsberg, and Hans Wolf-Watz -- Bacterial type IV secretion systems? DNA conjugation machines adapted for export of virulence factors / Peter J. Christie and Antonello Covacci -- Induction of apoptosis by microbial pathogens / Jeremy E. Moss, Ilona Idanpaan-Heikkila, and Arturo Zychlinsky -- Interaction of pathogens with the innate and adaptive immune system / Emil R. Unanue -- Microscopy / Chantal de Chastellier -- Promising new tools for virulence gene discovery / Timothy K. McDaniel and Raphael H. Valdivia.