Microbial Adhesion and Invasion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Cell Surface Carbohydrates as Adhesion Receptors for Many Pathogenic and Opportunistic Microorganisms

   • Howard C. Krivan, Laura Plosila, Lijuan Zhang, Valerie Holt, Mamoru Kyogashima

   Pages 1-13

3. The Integrins: A General Overview

   • Jonathan M. Edelman, Clayton A. Buck

   Pages 15-31

4. Molecular Interactions between Human Rhinoviruses and the Adhesion Receptor ICAM-1

   • Richard J. Colonno

   Pages 33-41

5. Cell Surface Receptors Required for Herpes simplex Virus Infection Include Heparan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycans

   • Patricia G. Spear, Mei-Tsu Shieh, Betsy C. Herold, Darrell WuDunn

   Pages 43-57

6. Interaction of Poliovirus with its Immunoglobulin-like Cell Receptor

   • Vincent R. Racaniello, Eric G. Moss, Gerardo Kaplan, Ruibao Ren

   Pages 59-67

7. Characterization and Expression of the Glycoprotein Receptor for Murine Coronavirus

   • Kathryn V. Holmes, Richard K. Williams

   Pages 69-76

8. A Regulatory Cascade Controls Virulence in Vibrio cholerae

   • Victor J. DiRita, Claude Parsot, Georg Jander, John J. Mekalanos

   Pages 77-83

9. Escape from the Phagosome and Cell-to-Cell Spread of Listeria monocytogenes

   • Daniel A. Portnoy, Andrew N. Sun, Jacek Bielecki

   Pages 85-94

10. Global Regulatory Control of Curli Expression and Fibronectin Binding in Enterobacteria

    • Staffan Normark, Christina Ericson, Anna Jonsson, Arne Olsen

    Pages 95-99

11. Collagen Receptor of Staphylococcus aureus

    • Lech M. Switalski, Wade G. Butcher, Joseph M. Patti, Pietro Speziale, Anthony G. Gristina, Magnus Hook

    Pages 101-114

12. Prospects for Group A Streptococcal Vaccine

    • Edwin H. Beachey, Malak Kotb

    Pages 115-136

13. Protection against Streptococcal Mucosal Colonization

    • Vincent A. Fischetti, Debra E. Bessen, Olaf Schneewind, Dennis E. Hruby

    Pages 137-147

14. Group A Streptococci: Molecular Mimicry, Autoimmunity and Infection

    • Madeleine W. Cunningham

    Pages 149-169

15. Attenuated Salmonella sp. as Live Vaccines and as Presenters of Heterologous Antigens

    • Bruce A. D. Stocker

    Pages 171-182

16. Molecular and Cellular Basis of Eucaryotic Cell Invasion by Shigella flexneri

    • Philippe J. Sansonetti

    Pages 183-192

17. Back Matter

    Pages 193-194

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This book contains the proceedings of the symposium on Microbial Adhesion and Invasion. The meeting was the fifth in a series of symposia initiated and sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham. We gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of the following institutions and companies. -Department of Biochemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA -Alfa Laval International, AB, Tumba, Sweden -Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA -Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA -Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA We would like to express our appreciation to Agneta Hook, Timo Kostiainen, Mary Homonylo McGavin, Martin McGavin, Cindy Patti, Joe Patti and Anna-Marja Saamanen for their time and hard work making this symposium a success; and special thanks to Kay Cooper and Wade Butcher for help with the management of the symposium and editorial assistance with this book.

• Antigen
• Immunity
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Viruses
• glycoprotein
• microorganism
• protein
• virulence
• virus

• Department of Biochemistry, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

  Magnus Hook

• Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, and Periodontics, School of Dental Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

  Lech Switalski

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