The Genus Yersinia : Entering the Functional Genomic Era

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evolution of Pathogenic Yersinia , Some Lights in the Dark....Pages 3-12
DNA Adenine Methylation....Pages 13-18
Tracing Acquisitions and Losses in Yersinia Genomes ....Pages 19-24
Subtractive Hybridization Uncovers Novel Pathogenicity-associated Loci in Yersinia enterocolitica ....Pages 25-30
Identification of Genes Involved in Yersinia pestis Virulence by Signature-tagged Mutagenesis....Pages 31-33
Characterization of Two Conjugative Yersinia Plasmids Mobilizing pYV....Pages 35-38
Signature-tagged Mutagenesis of Yersinia pestis ....Pages 39-42
Cobalamin Synthesis in Yersinia enterocolitica 8081....Pages 43-46
Construction of a Yersinia pestis Microarray....Pages 47-50
A Conjugal Type IV Transfer System in Yersinia enterocolitica Strains....Pages 51-53
Transmission Factors: Yersinia pestis Genes Required to Infect the Flea Vector of Plague....Pages 55-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Rho-GTP Binding Proteins in Yersinia Target Cell Interaction....Pages 65-72
A Technique of Intradermal Injection of Yersinia to Study Y. pestis Physiopathology....Pages 73-78
YopT Is a Cysteine Protease Cleaving Rho Family GTPases....Pages 79-84
Structural Studies of Yersinia Adhesin YadA....Pages 85-88
 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Harbors a Type IV Pilus Gene Cluster that Contributes to Pathogenicity....Pages 89-96
Salicylanilides are Potent Inhibitors of Type III Secretion in Yersinia ....Pages 97-100
Mapping of Possible Laminin Binding Sites of Y. pestis Plasminogen Activator (Pla) via Phage Display....Pages 101-104
The Fish Pathogen Yersinia ruckeri Possesses a TTS System....Pages 105-107
Characterisation of the Type III Secretion Protein YscU in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 109-112
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Mutagenesis Elucidates The Assembly Pathway and Structure of Yersinia pestis F1 Polymer....Pages 113-116
Characterization of Infections with Wild and Mutant Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Strains in Rabbit Oral Model....Pages 117-120
Identification of Yersinia pestis Pigment Receptor....Pages 121-124
 Yersinia enterocolitica Biotype 1A: Not as Harmless as You Think....Pages 125-128
Pestoides F, a Yersinia pestis Strain Lacking Plasminogen Activator, is Virulent by the Aerosol Route....Pages 129-131
Impact of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis -Derived Mitogen (YPM) on the Murine Immune System....Pages 133-135
Role of T Cells and Gamma Interferon in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis -Derived Mitogen (YPM)-Induced Toxicity in Mice....Pages 137-139
 Yersinia pestis Pla Has Multiple Virulence-associated Functions....Pages 141-145
Polyclonal B-Cell Activation in Mice Infected by Intragastric Route with Yersinia enterocolitica O:8....Pages 147-149
Polyclonal Activation as a Consequence of Infection of Mice with Yersinia enterocolitica O:3 Isolated from Patients with or without Arthritis....Pages 151-153
The Response of Murine Macrophages to Infection with Yersinia pestis as Revealed by DNA Microarray Analysis....Pages 155-160
Defensive Function of Phagocytes in Pseudotuberculosis....Pages 161-164
Mechanisms of Yersinia enterocolitica Evasion of the Host Innate Immune Response by V Antigen....Pages 165-167
 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis , Its Toxins and Plant Cells....Pages 169-171
Influence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis on the Immunity of Echinoderms....Pages 173-175
Acute and Chronic Experimental Infection Processes Caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Evaluation of Interleukin Action on Their Development and Outcome....Pages 177-179
Role of Apoptosis of Phagocytic Cells in the Development of Immunodeficiency in Plague....Pages 181-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Biological Role of Yersinia Lipopolysaccharide....Pages 187-197
O Antigen Gene Clusters of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 199-206
Cloning and Characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:9 Lipopolysaccharide O-Antigen Gene Cluster....Pages 207-209
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Characterization of the Lipopolysaccharide Outer Core Biosynthesis of Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:3....Pages 211-213
ECA-Antibodies in Antisera Against R Mutants of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3....Pages 215-218
Lipopolysaccharides of Yersinia ....Pages 219-228
The Core Structure of the Lipopolysaccharide of Yersinia pestis Strain KM218....Pages 229-232
Yersiniophages....Pages 233-240
Properties of the Temperate Yersinia enterocolitica Bacteriophage PY54....Pages 241-243
Transposon Mutagenesis of the Phage φYeO3-12....Pages 245-248
Analysis of Enterocoliticin, a Phage Tail-like Bacteriocin....Pages 249-252
Function and Regulation of the Salmonella -Like pmrF Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance Operon in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 253-256
Porin from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis : Cloning and Analysis of Primary Structure....Pages 257-260
Pore-forming Proteins of Genus Yersinia ....Pages 261-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Regulation of O-Antigen Biosynthesis in Yersinia enterocolitica ....Pages 267-274
Regulation of the Yersinia pestis Yfe and Ybt Iron Transport Systems....Pages 275-283
Function and Regulation of the Transcriptional Activator RovA of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 285-287
Temperature and Growth Phase Regulate the Transcription of the O-Antigen Gene Cluster of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3....Pages 289-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Molecular Epidemiology of Yersinia enterocolitica 4/O:3....Pages 295-302
Occurrence of Y. enterocolitica in Slaughter Pigs and Consequences for Meat Inspection, Slaughtering and Dressing Procedures....Pages 303-308
Molecular Epidemiology of the Five Recent Outbreaks of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Finland....Pages 309-312
 Yersinia pestis from Natural Foci....Pages 313-316
A Virulence Study of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3 Isolated from Sick Humans and Animals in Brazil Using PCR and Phenotypic Tests....Pages 317-319
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Molecular Virulence Characteristics and Kinetics of Infection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Isolated from Sick and Healthy Animals....Pages 321-323
Detection of Yersinia enterocolitica in Slaughter Pigs....Pages 325-328
Mechanism of Formation of a Population Level of Virulence of Yersinia pestis ....Pages 329-332
Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays for the Presumptive Identification of Yersinia pestis Strains in Georgia....Pages 333-336
Genetic (Sero)Typing of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 337-340
 Yersinia spp. in the Environment: Epidemiology and Virulence Characteristics....Pages 341-343
Molecular Characterization of Yersinia enterocolitica 1A Strains Isolated from Buenos Aires Sewage Water....Pages 345-348
Molecular Typing of Yersinia Strains by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and RAPD-PCR....Pages 349-352
Bacteriocin Susceptibility of Clinical Yersinia Strains....Pages 353-356
Molecular Epidemiology of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ....Pages 357-358
Growth of Yersinia enterocolitica in Inegol Meatballs....Pages 359-362
Molecular Genetic Typing of Yersinia enterocolitica Serovar O:8 Isolated in Japan....Pages 363-365
Prevalence and Characterisation of yadA -Positive Yersinia enterocolitica in Pig Tonsils in 1995 and 1999....Pages 367-369
 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Pigs and Pig Houses in Finland....Pages 371-373
Evaluation of Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) for Yersinia enterocolitica Molecular Epidemiology Investigations....Pages 375-378
F1-Negative Natural Y. pestis Strains....Pages 379-381
Occurence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Iceberg Lettuce and Environment....Pages 383-386
A Rapid Method for the Detection of Enteropathogenic Yersinia in Routine Diagnostics of Yersiniosis and Pseudotuberculosis....Pages 387-390
Molecular Epidemiological Characterization of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Circulating in Different Geographic Areas of the Russian Federation....Pages 391-394
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
Second and Third Generation Plague Vaccines....Pages 397-404
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
 Yersinia Outer Protein E, YopE....Pages 407-413
Immunological Characterisation of Sub-units of the Yersinia Type III Secretion Apparatus....Pages 415-418
A Recombinant Prototrophic Yersinia pestis Strain Over-Produces F1 Antigen with Enhanced Serological Activity....Pages 419-422
Vaccination with Plasmid DNA Expressing the Yersinia pestis Capsular Protein F1 Protects Mice Against Plague....Pages 423-424
Evaluation of Protective Immunity Induced by Yersinia enterocolitica Type-III Secretion System Mutants....Pages 425-430
Epidemiology and Diagnostics of Yersinia -Infections....Pages 431-438
Susceptibility to Plague of the Rodents in Antananarivo, Madagascar....Pages 439-442
Food-PCR....Pages 443-449
A Multiplex PCR-Detection Assay for Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:9 and Brucella spp. Based on the Perosamine Synthetase Gene....Pages 451-454
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Yersiniosis....Pages 455-457
Pathogenic Role of a Superantigen in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection....Pages 459-461
Chronic Infection with Yersinia enterocolitica in Patients with Clinical or Latent Hyperthyroidism....Pages 463-466
A New Selective Medium Provides Improved Growth and Recoverability of Yersinia pestis ....Pages 467-468
Evaluation of a One-step Biochemical Screening Test to Determine Pathogenic Strains of Yersinia enterocolitica ....Pages 469-472
Production of Polyvalent Yersinia enterocolitica Bacteriophage Preparation for Medical Prophylactic Use....Pages 473-476
New Approaches to Detect and Assess the Pathogenicity of Clinical Strains of Yersinia spp. Based on Molecular Biology Techniques....Pages 477-480