Genomic inquiries into oral bacterial communities

 Content: Table of Contents   I. THE HUMAN ORAL MICROBIOME  1.     Interspecies Interactions Promote Multispecies Communities, Paul E. Kolenbrander and Saravanan Periasamy  2.     The Oral Microbiome, Kanitsak Boonanantanasarn and Steven R. Gill     II. INITIAL COLONIZERS 3.     Genomes of Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus infantis, Herve S. G. Tettelin and Mogens Kilian 4.     Biological Implications of the Streptococcus sanguinis Genome, Todd Kitten, Lauren Senty Turner, and Ping Xu  5.     Actinomyces oris Fimbriae: an Adhesive Principle in Bacterial Biofilms and Tissue Tropism, Hung Ton-That, Asis Das, and Arunima Mishra  6.     Insights into Genus Veillonella in the Genomics Era, Natalia I. Chalmers, Tsute Chen, and Christopher V. Hughes    III. CROSSROADS BETWEEN HEALTH AND DISEASE 7.     Fusobacteria: Bridging between Health and Disease: a Metatranscriptomic Approach, Gilad Bachrach, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, and Itamar Simon 8.     The Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Genome: Diversity of Pathogenic Potential, Knud Poulsen, Herve Tettelin, and Mogens Kilian  9.     Porphyromonas gingivalis: the Role of Surface Structures in Virulence and Biofilm Development, Mary Ellen Davey, Heike Boisvert, and Annette Arndt  10.  Genome Functions of Tannerella forsythia in Bacterial Communities, Ashu Sharma  11.  Treponomics: Treponema denticola Genome and Functions, J. Christopher Fenno  12.  Candida albicans Colonization and Community Development, Howard F. Jenkinson and Carol A. Munro  13.  Functional Genomics of Streptococcus mutans, Robert A. Burne, Jacqueline Abranches, Sang-Joon Ahn, Jose A. Lemos, Zezhang T. Wen, and Lin Zeng    IV. INTERACTIONS WITH HOST CELLS 14.  Interactions of Porphyromonas gingivalis with Human Gingival Epithelium, Ozlem Yilmaz 15.  Fusobacterium nucleatum Interaction with Host Cells, Yiping W. Han    V. SIGNALS 16.  Competence-Stimulating Peptides in Oral Bacterial Signaling: Possible Implications in a Community Life, Fernanda Cristina Petersen and Anne Aamdal Scheie 17.  Autoinducer-2-Regulated Genes in Streptococcus mutans and Impact on Oral Bacterial Communities, Julie A. Perry and Dennis G. Cvitkovitch  18.  Alternative Autoinducer-2 Quorum-Sensing Response Circuits: Impact on Microbial Community Development, Donald R. Demuth, Elizabeth Novak, and Hanjuan Shao    VI. MULTISPECIES COMMUNITY ANALYSIS 19.  Cell-Cell Contact-Induced Gene Regulation in Streptococcus gordonii-Actinomyces oris Communities, Nicholas S. Jakubovics 20.  Metabolite Sensing in a Model Polymicrobial Community, Matthew Ramsey, Megan Boulette, Peter Jorth, and Marvin Whiteley  21.  Heterotypic Streptococcus gordonii-Porphyromonas gingivalis Communities: Formation, Gene Regulation, and Development, Masae Kuboniwa and Richard J. Lamont  22.  Antagonistic, Synergistic, and Counteroffensive Strategies for Streptococcal Interspecies Interactions, Jens Kreth, Justin Merritt, Fengxia Qi, Xiuzhu Dong, and Wenyuan Shi  23.  Role for Autoinducer-2 in the Development of Commensal Streptococcal Biofilms, Alexander H. Rickard, Adam J. Underwood, and Shawn R. Campagna  24.  The Streptococcus-Veillonella Community: How Genome Sequencing Aids Our Understanding of Interspecies Interaction, Fengxia Qi and Joseph J. Ferretti  25.  Spatiotemporal Organization of Multispecies Communities in the Human Oral Microbiome, Robert J. Palmer, Jr., and Paul E. Kolenbrander    Index