Signal Transduction and Bacterial Virulence

✍ Scribed by Rino Rappuoli, Vincenzo Scarlato, Beatrice Aricò (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 178
Series: Medical Intelligence Unit
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In order to survive, bacteria must constantly monitor their structure and physiology. Adaptive behaviours are established by using environmental sensors and response regulators. These communication modules regulate a wide variety of signals including host detection and invasion, cell cycle, metabolite utilization, starvation and many others. The purpose of this volume is to give an overview of the various systems and to introduce recent advances in understanding selected systems of pathogenic bacteria.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N2-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Signal Transduction and Iron-Mediated Regulation of Virulence Factors....Pages 7-20
BvgAS Dependent Phenotypic Modulation of Bordetella Species....Pages 21-42
Signal Transduction and Environmental Stress in Control of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Virulence....Pages 43-60
PhoP/PhoQ: Regulating Salmonella Adaptation to Host Microenvironments....Pages 61-77
Regulation of Virulence in Vibrio Cholerae by the ToxR System....Pages 79-93
Environmental Control of Virulence Functions and Signal Transduction in Yersinia Enterocolitica ....Pages 95-110
Signal Transduction and Virulence Gene Regulation in Shigella spp.: Temperature and (maybe) a Whole Lot More....Pages 111-127
Control of Listeria Monocytogenes Virulence by the Transcriptional Regulator PrfA....Pages 129-142
Signal Transduction in Staphylococci and Other Gram-Positive Cocci....Pages 143-156
Back Matter....Pages 157-167

✦ Subjects

Medical Microbiology; Molecular Medicine

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