The Genus Yersinia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Evolution and Genomics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Evolution of Pathogenic Yersinia, Some Lights in the Dark

      • Elisabeth Carniel

      Pages 3-12

   3. DNA Adenine Methylation

      • Victoria L. Taylor, Petra C. F. Oyston, Richard W. Titball

      Pages 13-18

   4. Tracing Acquisitions and Losses in Yersinia Genomes

      • Alexander Rakin, Andrey Golubov, Azuka Iwobi, Jürgen Heesemann

      Pages 19-24

   5. Subtractive Hybridization Uncovers Novel Pathogenicity-associated Loci in Yersinia enterocolitica

      • Azuka N. Iwobi, Alexander Rakin, Emilio Garcia, Jürgen Heesemann

      Pages 25-30

   6. Identification of Genes Involved in Yersinia pestis Virulence by Signature-tagged Mutagenesis

      • Yehuda Flashner, Emanuelle Mamroud, Avital Tidhar, Raphael Ber, Moshe Aftalion, David Gur et al.

      Pages 31-33

   7. Characterization of Two Conjugative Yersinia Plasmids Mobilizing pYV

      • Stefan Hertwig, Iris Klein, Jens A. Hammerl, Bernd Appel

      Pages 35-38

   8. Signature-tagged Mutagenesis of Yersinia pestis

      • Petra C.F. Oyston, Andrey V. Karlyshev, Brendan W. Wren, Richard W. Titball

      Pages 39-42

   9. Cobalamin Synthesis in Yersinia enterocolitica 8081

      • Michael B. Prentice, Jon Cuccui, Nick Thomson, Julian Parkhill, Evelyn Deery, Martin J. Warren

      Pages 43-46

   10. Construction of a Yersinia pestis Microarray

       • Richard A. Stabler, Jason Hinds, Adam A. Witney, Karen Isherwood, Petra Oyston, Richard Titball et al.

       Pages 47-50

   11. A Conjugal Type IV Transfer System in Yersinia enterocolitica Strains

       • Greta Goelz, Dorothea Knabner, Bernd Appel, Eckhard Strauch

       Pages 51-53

   12. Transmission Factors: Yersinia pestis Genes Required to Infect the Flea Vector of Plague

       • B. Joseph Hinnebusch

       Pages 55-62

3. Pathogenesis and Host Interactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Rho-GTP Binding Proteins in Yersinia Target Cell Interaction

      • Martin Aepfelbacher, Claudia Trasak, Agnès Wiedemann, Andreas Andor

      Pages 65-72

   3. A Technique of Intradermal Injection of Yersinia to Study Y. pestis Physiopathology

      • Françoise Guinet, Elisabeth Carniel

      Pages 73-78

   4. YopT Is a Cysteine Protease Cleaving Rho Family GTPases

      • Feng Shao, Jack E. Dixon

      Pages 79-84

   5. Structural Studies of Yersinia Adhesin YadA

      • Heli Nummelin, Michael C. Merckel, Yasmin El Tahir, Pauli Ollikka, Mikael Skurnik, Adrian Goldman

      Pages 85-88

   6. Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Harbors a Type IV Pilus Gene Cluster that Contributes to Pathogenicity

      • François Collyn, Michael Marceau, Michel Simonet

      Pages 89-96

   7. Salicylanilides are Potent Inhibitors of Type III Secretion in Yersinia

      • Anna M. Kauppi, Roland Nordfelth, Ulrik Hägglund, Hans Wolf-Watz, Mikael Elofsson

      Pages 97-100

For the eighth time the yersiniologists all over the world gathered together when the International Symposium on Yersinia was organized by University of Turku and Turku Microbiology Society in Turku, Finland. Over 250 delegates from 28 countries attended the Symposium. The Symposium logo (Picture 4, next page) presents a bacteriophage attached to the surface of the bacterium. One can easily imagine that most of the aspects covered in this Symposium are included in the logo: the bacteriophage genome encodes for structural proteins, adhesins and effector proteins that interact with the host cell in most intricate ways to carry out their mission. Life of the bacteriophage depends on the tightly regulated interplay between the phage and the host proteins. This all is also true between Yersinia and the different hosts and environments it encounters during its life cycle. This Symposium Proceedings volume is based on the oral and poster presentations given during the Symposium. The volume has been divided into six parts covering topics such as genomics, surface structures, bacteriophages, molecular and cellular pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology and diagnostics, gene regulation, clinical aspects and vaccines. These topics reflect righteously the present trends in the bacteriology research.

• DNA
• Polysaccharid
• bacteria
• bacterial pathogenesis
• infection
• infections
• vaccine
• infectious diseases

• University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Mikael Skurnik

• Hospital Son Dureta, Palma Mallorca, Spain

  José Antonio Bengoechea

• National Public Health Institute, Turku, Finland

  Kaisa Granfors

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