Bacterial Pathogenesis of Plants and Animals

1. Front Matter

   Pages III-XI

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2. Epiphytic Fitness of Phytopathogenic Bacteria: Physiological Adaptations for Growth and Survival

   • G. A. Beattie, S. E. Lindow

   Pages 1-27

3. Pathogenicity Determinants and Global Regulation of Pathogenicity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris

   • J. M. Dow, M. J. Daniels

   Pages 29-41

4. Erwinia Chrysanthemi and Pseudomonas syringae: Plant Pathogens Trafficking in Extracellular Virulence Proteins

   • A. Collmer, D. W. Bauer

   Pages 43-78

5. hrp Genes of Phytopathogenic Bacteria

   • U. Bonas

   Pages 79-96

6. The Enigmatic Avirulence Genes of Phytopathogenic Bacteria

   • J. L. Dangl

   Pages 99-118

7. The Genetic and Chemical Basis of Recognition in the Agrobacterium: Plant Interaction

   • A. N. Binns, V. R. Howitz

   Pages 119-138

8. Does Rhizobium Avoid the Host Response?

   • A. M. Hirsch, H. I. McKhann

   Pages 139-162

9. Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Salmonella Pathogenesis

   • B. B. Finlay

   Pages 163-185

10. Molecular and Genetic Determinants of the Listeria monocytogenes Infectious Process

    • B. Sheehan, C. Kocks, S. Dramsi, E. Gouin, A. D. Klarsfeld, J. Mengaud et al.

    Pages 187-216

11. Shigella flexneri: Genetics of Entry and intercellular Dissemination in Epithelial Cells

    • C. Parsot

    Pages 217-241

12. Yersinia Pathogenicity Factors

    • G. R. Cornelis

    Pages 243-263

13. Surface-Associated and Soluble Components of Vibrio cholerae Involved in Bacteria-Host Interactions

    • P. A. Manning

    Pages 265-281

14. Biology of the Pathogenic Neisseriae

    • T. F. Meyer, J. Pohlner, J. P. M. van Putten

    Pages 283-317

15. Pathogenicity Mechanisms of Bordetella

    • R. Rappuoli

    Pages 319-336

16. Back Matter

    Pages 337-346

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The last decade has seen an explosion in our understanding of how bacterial pathogens trick, cajole, usurp and parasitize their various hosts. This renaissance is due to the convergence of molecular and cellular techniques with the power of microbial genetics. The purpose of this volume is to introduce recent advances in understanding selected systems chosen from both plant and animal hosts of bacterial pathogens. This somewhat nonobvious choice of topics was spurred by the recent findings, detailed by several conributors to this volume, of common systems used to secrete virulence factors from pathogens of both plants and animals. These serendipitous findings underscored the importance of basic research approaches to parallel problems in biology. More importantly, they brought together investigators who may not have otherwise become conversant with each other's experimental systems. I, for one, find the kinds of synergism reflected in a volume of this sort to be one of the most pleasant aspects of science and hope that the reader, whether a newcomer to the field or an expert, can find a new slant to old problems in the reviews contained h,E:lre. It was, however, necessary to limit volume length, and this has forced the exclusion of a number of fascinating bacterial pathosystems.

• Animal Molecular Genetics
• Bacteria-host Interactions
• Disease Resistance
• Molekulargenetik
• Pathogenicity Mechanisms
• Pflanzengenetik
• Plant Molecular Genetics
• Zellbiologie
• akterielle Erkrankungen
• bacteria
• biology
• cell biology
• cellular mechanisms
• genetics
• growth
• microbial genetics
• molecular genetics
• parasite
• pathogenesis
• protein
• proteins
• pseudomonas
• resistance
• virulence

"This is an outstanding book that is extremely well-written and it is a pleasure to read. It is thought-provoking and, as such, it would be useful as an undergraduate text, perhaps for an advanced special course...The editor and his contributors are to be congratulated." Letters in Applied Microbiology

• Max-Delbrück-Laboratory, Cologne, Germany

  Jeffery L. Dangl

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