Bacterial adhesion : chemistry, biology and physics / Dirk Linke, Adrian Goldman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linke, Dirk, 1972-

Goldman, Adrian, 1958-

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 715.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bacteria--Adhesion.

Bacteria.

Bacterial Adhesion.

Medical Subjects:

Bacterial Adhesion.

Physical Description:

xiv, 374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2011]

Summary:

Adhesion plays a major role in the bacterial lifestyle. Bacteria can adhere to organic and inorganic surfaces, to each other, and of course to host cells during pathogenesis.

The focus of this books is: how are such adhesion phenomena best studied? Microbial genetics experiments have greatly enhanced our knowledge of what bacterial factors are involved in adhesion. For numerous reasons, though, biochemical and structural biology knowledge of the molecular interactions involved in adhesion are limited. One major problem has been a lack of interdisciplinary research and understanding in the field. On the one hand, the microbiologists lack detailed knowledge of the biophysical possibilities, and have limited access to the frequently expensive instrumentation involved while on the other hand, the experts in these methods frequently do not have access to the biological materials, nor do they necessarily understand the biological questions to be answered. The purpose of this book is thus to overcome this gap in communication between researchers in biology, chemistry, and physics, and to display the many ways and means to investigate bacterial adhesion, and so, we hope to stimulate newand ground-breaking research. Book jacket.

Contents:

Adhesins of human pathogens from the genus Yersinia / J.C. Leo and M. Skurnik

Adhesive mechanisms of Salmonella enterica / C. Wagner and M. Hensel

Adhesion mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi / S. Antonara, L. Ristow and J. Coburn

Adhesins of Bartonella spp. / F. O'Rourke ... [et al.]

Adhesion mechanisms of plant-pathogenic Xanthomonadaceae / N. Mhedbi-Hajri, M.A. Jacques and R. Koebnik

Adhesion by pathogenic Corynebacteria / E.A. Rogers, A. Das and H. Ton-That

Adhesion mechanisms of Staphylococci / C. Heilmann

Protein folding in bacterial adhesion: secretion and folding of classical monomeric autotransporters / P. van Ulsen

Structure and biology of trimeric autotransporter adhesins / A. Lyskowski, J.C. Leo and A. Goldman

Crystallography and electron microscopy of chaperone/usher pilus systems / S. Geibel and G. Waksman

Crystallography of gram-positive bacterial adhesins / V. Krishnan and S.V. Narayana

The nonideal coiled coil of M protein and its multifarious functions in pathogenesis / P. Ghosh

Bacterial extracellular polysaccharides / K. Bazaka ... [et al.]

Carbohydrate mediated bacterial adhesion / R.J. Pieters

The application of NMR techniques to bacterial adhesins / F. Shewmaker

Electron microscopy techniques to study bacterial adhesion / I. Grin, H. Schwarz and D. Linke

EM reconstruction of adhesins: future prospects / F. Ilaria and F. Giusti

Atomic force microscopy to study intermolecular forces and bonds associated with bacteria / S.K. Lower

Assessing bacterial adhesion on an individual adhesin and single pili level using optical tweezers / O. Axner ... [et al.]

Short time-scale bacterial adhesion dynamics / J. Geng and N. Henry

Deciphering biofilm structure and reactivity by multiscale time-resolved fluorescence analysis / A. Bridier ... [et al.]

Inhibition of bacterial adhesion on medical devices / L.R. Rodrigues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9400709390

9789400709393

OCLC:

706626333