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Bacterial Adhesion

Chemistry, Biology and Physics

  • Includes methods from such diverse fields as microbiology, structural biology, biophysics and biochemistry
  • Has additional color figures in the online (PDF) version
  • Displays the principles of bacterial adhesion over a broad range of medically relevant species
  • Provides a broad overview of adhesion from multiple perspectives, ranging from biophysics to medical applications
  • Useful for clinical researchers who want to gain a broad understanding of the science behind nosocomial infections

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 715)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Adhesins of Human Pathogens from the Genus Yersinia

    • Jack C. Leo, Mikael Skurnik
    Pages 1-15
  3. Adhesive Mechanisms of Salmonella enterica

    • Carolin Wagner, Michael Hensel
    Pages 17-34
  4. Adhesion Mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi

    • Styliani Antonara, Laura Ristow, Jenifer Coburn
    Pages 35-49
  5. Adhesins of Bartonella spp.

    • Fiona O’Rourke, Thomas Schmidgen, Patrick O. Kaiser, Dirk Linke, Volkhard A.J. Kempf
    Pages 51-70
  6. Adhesion Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Xanthomonadaceae

    • Nadia Mhedbi-Hajri, Marie-Agnès Jacques, Ralf Koebnik
    Pages 71-89
  7. Adhesion by Pathogenic Corynebacteria

    • Elizabeth A. Rogers, Asis Das, Hung Ton-That
    Pages 91-103
  8. Adhesion Mechanisms of Staphylococci

    • Christine Heilmann
    Pages 105-123
  9. Structure and Biology of Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesins

    • Andrzej Łyskowski, Jack C. Leo, Adrian Goldman
    Pages 143-158
  10. Crystallography and Electron Microscopy of Chaperone/Usher Pilus Systems

    • Sebastian Geibel, Gabriel Waksman
    Pages 159-174
  11. Crystallography of Gram-Positive Bacterial Adhesins

    • Vengadesan Krishnan, Sthanam V.L. Narayana
    Pages 175-195
  12. Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides

    • Kateryna Bazaka, Russell J. Crawford, Evgeny L. Nazarenko, Elena P. Ivanova
    Pages 213-226
  13. Carbohydrate Mediated Bacterial Adhesion

    • Roland J. Pieters
    Pages 227-240
  14. Electron Microscopy Techniques to Study Bacterial Adhesion

    • Iwan Grin, Heinz Schwarz, Dirk Linke
    Pages 257-269
  15. EM Reconstruction of Adhesins: Future Prospects

    • Ferlenghi Ilaria, Fabiola Giusti
    Pages 271-284
  16. Assessing Bacterial Adhesion on an Individual Adhesin and Single Pili Level Using Optical Tweezers

    • Ove Axner, Magnus Andersson, Oscar Björnham, Mickaël Castelain, Jeanna Klinth, Efstratios Koutris et al.
    Pages 301-313

About this book

Over the last few years, bacterial adhesion has become a more and more important and active scientific area, but the field lacks communication and scientific exchange between medical and microbiology researchers who work with the relevant biological systems, and biochemists, structural biologists and physicists, who know and understand the physical methods best suited to investigate the phenomenon at the molecular level. The field consequently would benefit from a cross-disciplinary conference enabling such communication. This book tries to bridge the gap between the disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department I, Protein Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental B, Tübingen, Germany

    Dirk Linke

  • , Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Adrian Goldman

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Softcover Book USD 229.99
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