Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Phenotypic and genetic aspects of host cell invasion by Salmonella species....Pages 3-16
CS1 pili of enterotoxigenic E. coli ....Pages 17-30
Molecular escorts required to present bacterial adhesins to eukaryotic receptors....Pages 31-45
Studies on the pili of the promiscuous plasmid RP4....Pages 47-65
Fimbria (pilus) mediated attachment of Pseudomonas syringae , Erwinia rhapontici and Xanthomonas campestris to plant surfaces....Pages 67-77
Attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to host cells....Pages 79-92
The function and regulation of genes required for extracellular polysaccharide synthesis and virulence in Pseudomonas solanacearum ....Pages 93-108
Effects of Opa proteins and lipooligosaccharides on surface charge and biological behavior of gonococci....Pages 109-125
Anthrax toxin mechanisms of receptor binding and internalization....Pages 127-139
Host-specific virulence genes of Xanthomonas ....Pages 141-158
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Iron and plant pathogenesis: the systemic soft rot disease induced by Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937 on saintpaulia plants....Pages 161-171
Characterization of the Vibrio cholerae heme iron transport system and its role in pathogenesis....Pages 173-184
Toxin secretion in Bordetella pertussis : breaking the Gram-negative barrier....Pages 185-191
Factors affecting the virulence of soft rot Erwinia species: the molecular biology of an opportunistic phytopathogen....Pages 193-206
Processing of the T-DNA from the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti-plasmid....Pages 207-222
T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to the plant cell nucleus....Pages 223-230
Mechanisms of T-DNA transfer and integration into plant chromosomes: role of vir B , vir D4 and vir E2 and a short interspersed repetitive element (SINE) from tobacco....Pages 231-248
Molecular pathogenesis of viridans streptococcal endocarditis....Pages 249-265
Method for detecting gene expression of internalized Salmonella typhimurium in macrophages....Pages 267-280
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Structural and functional analysis of HpmA hemolysin of Proteus mirabilis ....Pages 283-292
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Assembly of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin and its secretion from Vibrio cholerae ....Pages 293-309
Extracellular virulence factors of Pseudomonas solanacearum : role in disease and regulation of expression....Pages 311-324
RTX-toxins in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and their potential role in virulence....Pages 325-340
Capsular polysaccharide production in Erwinias ....Pages 341-356
The role of extracellular polysaccharides as virulence factors for phytopathogenic pseudomonads and xanthomonads....Pages 357-378
Transcriptional Regulation of α-Hemolysin Genetic Expression: hly M , a sequence contained in hly C , modulates hemolysin transcription....Pages 379-397
The role of the syr BCD gene cluster in the biosynthesis and secretion of Syringomycin by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae....Pages 399-414
Characterization of genes involved in phaseolotoxin production and its thermal regulation....Pages 415-428
Application of capillary liquid chromatography — electrospray mass spectrometry to identify major siderophores of Erwinia amylovora as proferrioxamines and their potential role in virulence....Pages 429-444
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Transcriptional elements in Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin expression....Pages 447-462
Signal transduction in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 463-475
Regulation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence gene expression....Pages 477-489
Regulation of the iron transport genes encoded by the p JM 1 virulence plasmid in Vibrio anguillarum ....Pages 491-504
Conservation of the lema gene, a virulence regulator from the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae , within a human pathogenic bacterium....Pages 505-510
Virulence regulation in Bordetella pertussis ....Pages 511-524
Regulation of Shigella virulence expression....Pages 525-541
Molecular genetic analysis of global regulation of extracellular enzyme synthesis in Erwinia carotovora subspecies carotovora ....Pages 543-547
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Physiology of resistant interactions between Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and rice....Pages 551-560
Mechanisms for the virulence of Nocardia ....Pages 561-572
Developments in the interaction of bacterial avirulence genes and plant disease resistance genes....Pages 573-579
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Anti-host-defense systems are elaborated by plant pathogenic bacteria....Pages 581-591
Organization, regulation and function of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae hrp genes....Pages 593-603
The role of indoleacetic acid production by Pseudomonas syringae pathovars on their pathogenicity on host plants....Pages 605-613
Molecular analysis of virulence associated gene regions from the ovine footrot pathogen, Dichelobacter nodosus ....Pages 615-624
Genes governing the secretion of factors involved in host-bacteria interactions are conserved among animal and plant pathogenic bacteria....Pages 625-638
Defining the contribution of the Agrobacterium chromosome in crown gall tumorigenesis....Pages 639-649
Back Matter....Pages 651-673