| Description |
xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Regulation of transcription by anti-sigma factors / Elizabeth A. Campbell and Seth A. Darst -- Two-component signal transduction and chemotaxis / Jodi B. Lubetsky and Ann M. Stock -- Sugar recognition and bacterial attachment / Craig L. Smith ... [et al.] -- Host receptors of bacterial origin / Calvin K. Yip ... [et al.] -- The chaperone-usher pathway of pilus fiber biogenesis / Frederic G. Sauer, Scott J. Hultgren, and Gabriel Waksman -- Structure and assembly of type IV pilins / Katrina T. Forest -- Sortase pathways in gram-positive bacteria / Kevin M. Connolly and Robert T. Clubb -- Structural determinants of Haemophilus influenzae adherence to host epithelia: variations on type V secretion / Neeraj K. Surana ... [et al.] -- Type III secretion machinery and effectors / C. Erec Stebbins -- Type IV secretion machinery / Gunnar Schröder, Savvas N. Savvides, Gabriel Waksman, and Erich Lanka -- Injectosomes in gram-positive bacteria / Rodney K. Tweten and Michael Caparon -- Toll/interleukin-1 receptors and innate immunity / Liang Tong |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Virulence (Microbiology)
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Bacteria -- Ultrastructure.
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Molecular microbiology.
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Bacteria -- pathogenicity.
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Bacterial Infections -- microbiology.
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Bacterial Physiological Phenomena.
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Virulence Factors.
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| Author |
Waksman, Gabriel.
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Caparon, Michael.
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Hultgren, Scott.
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| LC no. |
2004030413 |
| ISBN |
1555813011 hardback |
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