Bacterial Adhesion Chemistry, Biology and Physics [Hardcover]

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.

Focusing on how best to study bacterial adhesion, this volume helps bridge the communication divide between biologists, chemists and physics researchers and aims at stimulating fresh and groundbreaking research into this essential function of bacteria.

Introduction; D. Linke and A. Goldman

1.????Adhesins of human pathogens from the genus Yersinia; J.C. Leo and M. Skurnik

2.????Adhesive mechanisms of Salmonella enteric; C. Wagner and M. Hensel

3.????Adhesion Mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi; S. Antonara, L. Ristow and J. Coburn

4.????Adhesins of Bartonella spp.; F. O?Rourke, T. Schmidgen, P.O. Kaiser, D. Linke and V.A.J. Kempf

5.????Adhesion Mechanisms of Plant-Pathogenic Xanthomonadeae; N. Mhedbi-Hajri, M.-A. Jacques and R. Koebnik

6.????Adhesion by Pathogenic Corynebacteria; E.A. Rogers, A. Das and H. Ton-That

7.????Adhesion Mechanisms of Staphylococci; C. Heilmann

8.????Protein Folding in Bacterial Adhesion: Secretion and Folding of Classical Monomeric Autotransporters; P. van Ulsen

9.????Structure and Biology of Trl£"