Microbial Surface Components and Toxins in Relation to Pathogenesis

30.09.1991

Englisch

9780306439087

Springer US

F.E.M.S. Symposium Series

Nein

210

Gebundene Ausgabe

51

Toxin, molecular aspects, genetics, Pathogene, biosynthesis, development, protein, tissue, Colon, Escherichia coli, Pili

PSB - Biochemie MFN - Genetik, Medizin MKFM - Mikrobiologie und Virologie PST - Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften PSV - Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften PSAF - Ökologie, Biosphäre PSG - Mikrobiologie (nicht-medizinisch)

I. Adhesion and Colonization.- Characterization and Surface Organization of E. coli Adhesins.- Binding of Enterobacterial Fimbria to Proteins of Basement Membranes and Connective Tissue — A Novel Function for Fimbriae.- P-Fimbriae: Molecular Aspects of Their Structure and Their Application as Carriers of Foreign Antigenic Determinants.- Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli, A New Diarrheal Agent.- Fimbriae of Human Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Control of Their Expression.- Regulation of the Biosynthesis of K99 and 987P Fimbriae.- Adherence Pili of Escherichia coli 078 Determine Host and Tissue Specificity.- The Analysis of Bordetella pertussis Fimbrial Mutants in a Rabbit Model.- Differentiation Between Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica.- Adherence and Pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: A Review.- II. Cell Invasion and Intracellular Multiplication.- Genetics of Factors Involved in Extraintestinal E. coli Pathogenicity.- Entry and Intracellular Behaviour of Shigella.- The Salmonella typhimurium Virulence Plasmid.- Regulation and Function of Plasmid Encoded Virulence Determinants of Yersinia.- Outer Membrane Proteins: Old and New.- III. Evasion of Host Defenses.- Structural Aspects of LPS: Role in Evasion of Host Defense Mechanism.- Chemical Characterization of E. coli Capsules and Analysis of Their Expression.- Structure, Function and Role in Disease of Pneumolysin, the Thiol-Activated Toxin of Streptococcus pneumoniae.- Studies on the Genetic Basis of Haemophilus influenza Pathogenicity.- IV. Toxins and Systematic Effects.- Assembly and Secretion of Oligomeric Toxins.- Genetics of Yop Production in Yersinia enterocolitica.- TNF-?, IL-1 and PGE2Secretion Following Macrophage Activation by Mycoplasma capricolum Membranes.- Bacterial Endotoxins: Relationships Between Chemical Structure and Biological Activity of the Inner Core-Lipid A Domain.- Author Index.

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